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INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

Olson Laboratories, Inc., under contract with the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) (Project No. CAPE-22-72) investigated the feasibility of two flow measuring techniques in the measurement of mass mobile source exhaust emissions. These techniques utilized a tracer gas injected into the exhaust stream and an ultrasonic vortex flow meter (UVF). Both techniques were used with conventional exhaust gas analyzers. With the aid of an on-line, computer-controlled system, the mass emission results could be computed by integration of the instantaneous values and modal emissions analysis performed. A series of experiments were conducted in studying the characteristics of each method,