An open system for collection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) was constructed to measure the emission rate of VOC from a whole plant of the small salad crops intended for use in NASA’s Advanced Life Support Systems (ALSS). The design of the system provides a controlled plant growth environment in order to maintain normal plant physiology during VOC sampling. The system air is re-circulated through a heat exchanger to control the plant chamber temperature and humidity. An inlet air stream of 20 cc/min is purged through the system to prevent build-up of VOC to levels that may have adverse effects and to maintain system pressure at 1 atm. CO2 is added to maintain canopy concentration of 1000 μmole/mole and light is set at 250 μmol.m−2.sec−1 (photosynthetic photon flux, PPF). Overall, this system provides a nondestructive, steady state rate measurement of emitted plant VOC even at very low levels, regardless of plant age. Ethylene emission rates from USU-Apogee wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are presented here.


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    Titel :

    A Technique for Measurement of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emission Rates from Small Salad Crops


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Khoo, B. K. (Autor:in) / Lech, J. (Autor:in) / Hogan, J. A. (Autor:in) / Logendra, L. S. (Autor:in) / Cowan, R. M. (Autor:in) / Kania, S. T. (Autor:in) / Hartman, T. G. (Autor:in) / Lertsiriyothin, W. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    31st International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2001



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2001-07-09




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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