TITLE
Total Organics Guidance Manual for Stationary Source Emissions

AUTHOR(S)
Robert F. Martz, Joan T. Bursey, Raymond G. Merrill, Easter A.
Coppedge, Larry D. Johnson

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS
Radian Corporation
P.O. Box 13000, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

SPONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS
National Exposure Research Laboratory
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

ABSTRACT
A guidance manual, prepared under EPA contract, was written to
catalogue the methods used to measure and report total organics
data from stationary source emissions.  Preparers of air quality
permit applications for waste combustion units require total
organics data for their assessments.  The guidance manual
identifies specific techniques to determine the total organics
sampled from stationary combustion sources.  To generate a value
for total organics, organics data from three specific boiling
point/vapor pressure classes are combined: light hydrocarbons and
volatile organics (measured using Field Gas Chromatography and
Purge and Trap Gas Chromatography), semivolatile organics (measured
using a total chromatographic organics method), and nonvolatile
organic compounds (measured using a gravimetric analysis method). 
The methods for measuring and reporting the individual parameters
are discussed in detail in the guidance manual.  After a literature
search and subsequent laboratory testing, two specific improvements
to the methodology were suggested.  Gas Chromatography/Mass
Spectrophotometry techniques were offered as an alternative to Gas
Chromatography/Flame Ionization Detection for total chromatographic
organics measurements of semivolatile organics.  In addition, the
use of smaller, more sampleefficient microgravimetric pans was
implemented for nonvolatile gravimetric measurements.