Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced rules for continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) of stacks and ducts in nuclear facilities. EPA has recently approved use of Alternative Reference Methodologies (ARM) for air sampling in nuclear facilities which are based on the concept of single point representative sampling of flows in stacks and ducts. The ARM permits use of single point sampling of aerosol particles with a shrouded probe provided it can be demonstrated that both fluid momentum and contaminant concentration are well mixed. This work is mainly focused on developing an experimental model that will predict mixing of both mass and momentum in a highly turbulent flow. The experimental results for different duct configurations including straight duct, 900 elbow, 450 lateral and a generic mixer are incorporated into a correlation model for predicting the mixing quality for both the velocity and contaminant concentration as functions of such flow geometry, scale, pressure drop and fluid properties. These results would help the designers of sampling systems to select the proper locations for the collection of representative samples.
Langari, Abdolreza (1997). Turbulent mixing in ducts, theory and experiment application to aerosol single point sampling. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -1997 -THESIS -L365.