MEASUREMENT AND MODELING OF NOx OFFGASING FROM FEP TEFLON CHAMBERS

The College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) at the University of California (UCR) is undertaking a new project to develop a “Next Generation” environmental chamber for evaluating chemical mechanisms under lower pollutant conditions than has previously been possible (Carter et al., 1999). A major objective of this project is to generate mechanism evaluation data under very low NOx conditions, where the products and mechanisms for many VOC oxidations are expected to differ from those under the higher NOx conditions characteristic of more polluted urban areas and the current environmental chamber data base.