Technical Tours

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Wednesday, June 11
EPA Facility Tours 
9:00 am – 1:00 pm

EPA's campus in RTP, North Carolina, houses 15 EPA offices, including EPA's major center for research on air, climate, and energy. The RTP campus covers nearly 1.2 million square feet and is the largest facility ever built by the agency. This tour will visit the EPA RTP campus and three laboratory facilities: Household Energy Laboratory, Environmental Chamber Facility, and Fluid Modeling Facility.

EPA’s Household Energy Laboratory is used to conduct research on air pollutant emissions and fuel efficiency for cook stoves used in low-to-middle-income countries.
 

EPA’s Environmental Chamber Facility consists of a 14.5-m3 fixed-volume chamber used to simulate atmospheric photochemical processes. The chamber can be used for conventional batch experiments or operated in a steady-state mode to maximize sampling time. A suite of analytical instruments allows for the examination of gas and particle phase photochemical products.
 

The Fluid Modeling Facility houses the Meteorological Wind Tunnel and supporting offices. Experimental studies within the laboratory contribute directly to the development and improvement of EPA’s numerical models of pollutant transport and diffusion, which are critical to the development and enforcement of air quality standards and the evaluation of human exposures and associated risk assessments.