Performance Testing of Homeland Security Technologies in U.S. EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program PDF Download

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The U.S. EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program has conducted third-party performance testing on over 300 commercially available environmental technologies (reports and test plans available at www.epa.gov/etv). In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the ETV approach has also been employed in performance tests of technologies relevant to homeland security (HS), with over 30 such technologies tested to date. Those technologies fall into in six technology areas: 1) detection of chemical or biological contamination in buildings; 2) decontamination of buildings after chemical or biological contamination; 3) detection of chemical or biological contamination of drinking water; 4) protection of building ventilation air from chemical and biological contamination; 5) point-of-use treatment of drinking water to protect against chemical and biological contaminants; and 6) treatment of wastewater produced by building decontamination efforts. This paper focuses on Battelle's HS detection technology tests in area #1. In that area, testing with toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents has been completed on the Bruker Daltonics RAID-M portable ion mobility spectrometer (IMS), the Microsensor Systems HAZMATCAD Plus hybrid electrochemical/surface acoustic wave (SAW) detector, and the Environics M90-D1-C IMS detector. In the building decontamination area, testing has been completed on hydrogen peroxide, chlorine dioxide, and formaldehyde vapor decontamination technologies for removal of biological and/or chemical contaminants. In the water monitoring area, testing with chemical and biological agents, biotoxins, and toxic industrial chemicals has been completed on several types of detectors. This paper introduces the procedures used for testing, and summarizes selected test results.