Emissions Chamber Testing as Basis of Environmental Verification Program for Indoor Air Products

摘要

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to provide an emissions testing and verification program for products used indoors. This program is part of EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program. Building on existing test methods, RTI is developing a test protocol for office furniture. The protocol will be validated in laboratories at RTI and Air Quality Sciences, Inc. and then will be submitted for approval by a stakeholders group representing buyers, and users of technology, developers, and vendors, and technology enables. Testing results will be provided to clients but will also be incorporated in a data base of industry-specific statistical averages which may be used for modeling pollutant concentrations within a building.