ENV-13-53 Use of the Emission Isolation Flux Chamber to Determine Area Source Emissions

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This paper introduces the Emission Isolation Flux Chamber, an USEPA-referenced method for determining mass emission rates from land or liquid area sources. The paper describes the flux chamber design, its theory of operation and its ability to quantify mass emission rates from a wide variety of volatile organic and inorganic emission sources including landfills, land farms, lagoons, surface impoundments, heap piles, compost piles, agricultural heaps, silage, uncontrolled hazardous waste facilities, controlled hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities, and spill sites. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the downhole flux chamber, a related technology developed for assessing subsurface contaminant sources including groundwater plumes.