A simple system, developed for chemical class analysis of hydrocarbons found in automotive exhaust should prove useful for evaluating the contributions of automotive emissions to photochemical air pollution. The system of scrubbers permits determination of paraffins, olefins and acetylenes, and aromatics. Benzene may be determined with either the paraffinic or aromatic hydrocarbons. The system may be used with existing standard hydrocarbon analyzers without requiring their modification.
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