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Dr. David Allen, a leading researcher on the Texas Air Quality Study II that ended this October, helped identify regional air pollutants as being a major factor that needs to be considered in updating Texas cities' air quality regulation plans. Allen directs the university’s Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, and helped compile research findings from the study that were presented recently to the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality to guide regulatory decisions.
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Dr. David Allen with Jarett Spinhirne, a research engineer who runs Allen’s air analysis lab at the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources. In front of them is a device to which they have attached stainless steel cannisters that contain air samples collected at sites in Austin, Houston and other parts of central and eastern Texas for the TexAQSII study. The tank of liquid nitrogen behind that is used to cool the air sample down to -320 degrees Fahrenheit to solidify the carbon-based chemical pollutants in the air sample for further analysis. |
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