Recovery of Agricultural Odors and Odorous Compounds from Polyvinyl Fluoride Film Bags

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 10; no. 9; pp. 8536 - 8552
• Main Authors: Parker, David B., Perschbacher-Buser, Zena L., Cole, N. Andy, Koziel, Jacek A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.09.2010; Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
• Subjects: acetic acid; Air pollution; analysis; animal feeding operation; animal feeding operations; Animal Husbandry; bags; Brand names; butyric acid; chemistry; Chromatography; Emissions; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Monitoring - instrumentation; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Fatty Acids; Fatty Acids - analysis; Fluorides; gas chromatography; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry - instrumentation; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry - methods; Gases; hexanoic acid; Humans; instrumentation; isobutyric acid; Laboratories; Mass spectrometry; methods; odor activity value; odor detection threshold; odor sampling; Odorants; Odorants - analysis; Odors; off odors; olfactometry; p-cresol; Polyethylene Glycols; Polyethylene Glycols - chemistry; Polyethylene Terephthalates; polymers; Polyvinyls; Polyvinyls - chemistry; propionic acid; Regression Analysis; sampling; Scientific imaging; Sensors; single-compound odor threshold; Tedlar; valeric acid; VOCs; volatile fatty acid; volatile organic compound; Volatile organic compounds; Volatile Organic Compounds - analysis; United States > US; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; volatile fatty acid; animal feeding operation; single-compound odor threshold; odor activity value; volatile organic compound; odor detection threshold; Tedlar; odor sampling

Accurate sampling methods are necessary when quantifying odor and volatile organic compound emissions at agricultural facilities. The commonly accepted methodology in the U.S. has been to collect odor samples in polyvinyl fluoride bags (PVF, brand name Tedlar®) and, subsequently, analyze with human...