Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from road marking paints
Authors:
- Tomasz E. Burghardt,
- Anton Pashkevich
Abstract
Regulations, definitions, and calculations related to emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) from paints used for horizontal road markings (traffic paints) in North America and in European Union are different, which frequently makes simple comparisons impossible. To illustrate the dissimilarities, solvent packages of various exemplary paints that meet several normative requirements were compared for the nominal emissions according to different calculation procedures. For a unified assessment, volatile portions of the paints were evaluated based on Ozone Formation Potential (OFP). The analysis revealed that similar nominal VOC contents can lead to vastly different OFP, in an extreme case six times higher. Incongruously high OFP, which was calculated for emissions in Southern California despite strict limits can thus be explained. The provided calculations can be used by road administrators as a tool to demand materials with lowest environmental impact, by environmental researchers to pinpoint irregularities between declared and measured discharges, and can assist formulating chemists in selection of raw materials to prepare environmentally friendly road marking paints.
- Record ID
- CUT5768895b06ae441096b40702d80d329c
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Atmospheric Environment, ISSN 1352-2310, e-ISSN 1873-2844
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 193
- Pages
- 153-157
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 157; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 193
- Keywords in English
- horizontal road markings, paint, ozone formation potential, volatile organic compounds, maximum incremental reactivity, environmental policy
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.08.065 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231018305867 Opening in a new tab
- Related project
- Analiza percepcji poziomego i pionowego oznakowania drogowego na podstawie badań okulograficznych i symulacyjnych. . Project leader at PK: , ,
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 40
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT5768895b06ae441096b40702d80d329c/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT5768895b06ae441096b40702d80d329c
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