The Ddevelopment and Designation Testing of a New USEPA-Approved Fine Particle Inlet: A Study of the USEPA Designation Process

Figures & data

FIG. 1 Schematic diagram of the VSCC cyclone, showing the principal dimensions.

FIG. 2 Comparison of WINS and VSCC showing curves fitted to data.

FIG. 3 Effect of dust loading on VSCC D50 and sharpness of cut.

TABLE 1 Summary of results from the field comparisons of WINS and VSCC samplers

	CT data: 11 data sets	CT data: 13 data sets	Phoenix data: 15 data sets	USEPA performance requirement
Slope	1.013	1.005	1.04	1 ± 0.05
Intercept	0.17	0.23	0.859	0 ± 1
R^2	0.9993	0.9991	0.970	> 0.97

FIG. 4 Field comparison of VSCC and WINS PM2.5.