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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1978 j Pickup Your 1978 est ref V nm"\ ml B-ye' 1 I lair'll Aggielands Now!! (iprl veal Mr It equl hrise f Dollar Matinee Although “Dollar Matinee” was the first song of Lyle Lovett’s performance, his “matinee”, sponsored by the MSG Base ment Coffee House, was free. Lovett, a senior journalism major at Texas A&M University, sang and played guitai harmonica by the Rudder Fountain Friday afternoon lost Battalion photo by Karen C are sian ] altnost b- <M energy Me Mors Anyone who has paid for the book may pick up his or her copy at Building G (second barracks off Ireland Street, adjacent to University Drive) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Car pollution eal )#omy, Ihigl L secon l$2.6(X lee mlic You MUST have your Student ID card for identification. Emission tester to aid research Kal ad was a 31 I the f( No one will be allowed to pickup a book other than his own EXCEPT for members of the immediate family, and even then, the person making the pickup MUST have the Student ID card of the person who has paid for the book. There will be no other exceptions. A vehicle emission test system will be acquired for the Texas Transpor tation Institute’s research facilities at Texas A&M University. The system is to aid teaching and research and will be one of three such units in the state. Research will include work for the Federal High way Administration and National Highway Traffic Safety Administra tion. “The system will expand our capabilities and make TTI more re sponsive to research proposals,” ex plained Richard D. Tonda, principle investigator on the system. Tonda is also a TTI research associate who taught in the College of Engineer- ing. “If the state decided to adopt Several industries are interested in its research potential. The possibility exists of testing foreign vehicles coming into the United States through the Port of Houston. emission standards such as Califor nia’s, enforcement might depend on . . . And while you’re at it, let MUSIC MAN the SUNN « “YOUR ootn GU,TAR SPECIALIST" GIBSON Ave 7793968 TAKAMINE this be a reminder to have I ! university Lutheran Chapel ■ ▼ 315 N. College Main steady-state testing equipment car ried by highway patrol units," Tonda said. “The TTI emission test system could be used to calibrate and test the less expensive equipment.” The system will serve education through Texas A&M’s Mechanical Engineering Department. Several industries are interested in its research potential. The possi bility exists of testing foreign vehi cles coming into the United States through the Port of Houston. “Ours will be an Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab, we hope,” remarked Tonda, “in which case only EPA-certified technicians may operate the system.” It’s approximate $300,000 cost in cludes renovation of a building at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Bryan to contain the sys tem. The system, which consists of | Hubert Beck, Pastor 846-6687 your picture taken for the ♦ r H edneaday Evening Candlelight Communion Service 10:00 P.M. |P> -NNifcS ^ 1979 books at liii. barker not ographu WORSHIP SERVICES AT 9:15 A.M. AND 10:45 A.M. WORSHIP CELEBRATION AT 6 P.M. chassis dynamometer on which a test vehicle’s wheels are driven, a con stant volume sampler (CVS), and an analytical bench and computer, will pollutants regulated by the EPA. These are unburned hy drocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen produced by every internal combustion engine, Tonda said. When combined with sunlight, they tend to form an eye-, nose- and throat-burning, visibility-reducing substance known as photochemical smog. This is the well-known Los Angeles smog. Houston’s growth and vehicular increases make the brown LA haze” a similar problem under certain atmospheric condi tions. EPA-prescribed test procedures measure pollutants as an amount of grams per mile per “car run.” Tonda, who studied at General Motors Institute and Michigan State University, noted that vehicle emis sion tests consist of three 707-second runs of a car by a human driver, fol lowing second-by-second EPA stipu lations. One is with the car cold. Two are done after the car iswj Test preparation includes the car or letting it adjustti building’s temperature Bagged gasses from the pipe are run through ai the bench. Outside air is pled and tested, to prevenl ing a vehicle for matteraln air. The TTI system, Tonda feature eight analyzers and L. ncen , be used for continuous ^ f or monitoring. Jrli»n “This is one of our P n B a tj on search interests for the im s j a , Pouda said- 'th theB a j e( j p do modal analysis, 1 we (« v j s j ve J second-by-second output. .V | s ()n ^ number 303, for example,» s unt jj able to ascertain that at ace ( t 0 g 0 t locity, a certain volumeofei I5 being produced includi[|i e sj n g a amounts of pollutants. |om th< Tonda said it will also be jj s ^ to test all eight injectors e | na tj on injection system and at li* se 0 rig time- monitor the inject 10;fissent fi brain box for most efficiei tion. “We could run before tests on catalytic convei ties th ots ar popt educ EPA-prescribed (e,t «up ers c dures measure pollutam s ^ ew3 amount of grams per i» nmuni “car run. ” ciency,” Tonda remarked, j cu with car mileage. We cool unc j er driver to put 4,000 miles 01 cle. Analysis of zero milwj 4,000-mile converter to desi£ IHjthjg Stre ckshav lined. ainst th lighly- might lead provements. ” Two other emission tests; s p 0 | jt j Texas are located in San At 8 y to p the Southwest Research yit con | and at Automotive Res° pent sociates Corporation. <ommuni Both are completely I’ IDs and 0 the next year, a cording to# A&M p u rchas i ng agent bar TTI emission test system01 405 University Drive, College Station THE Maroon& White r Here is the schedule — cut It out — and be sure YOU get there during your assigned time period. IS HERE. 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