[Gasification] ASTM : New protocol for measuring wood smoke emissions

[Bruno M.]

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ASTM Standards And EPA Stakeholder Meetings

by AER Staff on Friday 11 May 2007


The American Society for Testing and Materials' (ASTM) Low-Mass 
Fireplace Task Group has finalized two ASTM Standards: E2515, the 
laboratory protocol for measuring wood smoke emissions, and E2558, 
its Fireplace Fueling Protocol.

Relating to the standards, the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association 
HPBA will now work with the Environmental Protection Agency in 
stakeholder meetings to create emission limits for "clean-burning 
fireplaces." Initially a voluntary program, it will become the 
equivalent of an EPA-certified product for regulators and green 
building groups.

ASTM, formed in 1898 in the United States by a group of scientists 
and engineers, has grown to become ASTM International, which supports 
thousands of technical committees that draw their members from around 
the world and collectively maintain more than 12,000 standards.

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