The automobile industry is producing more than 84 million passenger cars worldwide.
To ensure a high-quality car, implemented control standards are mandatory for the supply chain of a vehicle.
The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) recommends to standardize certain control standard analyses, which have to be followed by suppliers for VDA members and the car manufacturers themselves.
Such a guideline for analyzing organic emissions of non-metallic materials used in automobiles based on thermal desorption techniques, is stated in the VDA 278. This guideline is the basis for this application.
The VDA 278 recommends to distinguish between two classes of compounds: highly and medium volatile substances (VOC) up to C25 and those of low volatility (FOG) in the range of C14 up to C32.
In this application Polypropylene (PP)-Granules, a raw material for moulded automobile interior parts as well as synthetic leather have been analyzed according to VDA 278 regarding their organic emissions.
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