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40 CFR § 1066.615 - NO intake-air humidity correction.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s1066.615"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 1066.615 - NO intake-air humidity correction."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "1066.615"
section_name: "NO intake-air humidity correction."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "U"
subchapter_name: "AIR POLLUTION CONTROLS"
part_number: "1066"
part_name: "VEHICLE-TESTING PROCEDURES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q."
regulatory_source: "79 FR 23823, Apr. 28, 2014, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1066"
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# 1066.615 NO intake-air humidity correction.

You may correct NO<sub>X</sub> emissions for intake-air humidity as described in this section if the standard-setting part allows it. See § 1066.605(c) for the proper sequence for applying the NO<sub>X</sub> intake-air humidity correction.

(a) For vehicles at or below 14,000 pounds GVWR, apply a correction for vehicles with reciprocating engines operating over specific test cycles as follows:

(1) Calculate a humidity correction using a time-weighted mean value for ambient humidity over the test interval. Calculate absolute ambient humidity, *H*, using the following equation:

Where:

*M*<sub>H2O</sub> = molar mass of H<sub>2</sub>O.

*p*<sub>d</sub> = saturated vapor pressure at the ambient dry bulb temperature.

*RH* = relative humidity of ambient air

*M*<sub>air</sub> = molar mass of air.

*p*<sub>atmos</sub> = atmospheric pressure.

*M*<sub>H2O</sub> = 18.01528 g/mol

*p*<sub>d</sub> = 2.93 kPa

*RH* = 37.5% = 0.375

*M*<sub>air</sub> = 28.96559 g/mol

*p*<sub>atmos</sub> = 96.71 kPa

(2) Use the following equation to correct measured concentrations to a reference condition of 10.71 grams H<sub>2</sub>O vapor per kilogram of dry air for the FTP, US06, LA-92, SC03, and HFET test cycles:

Where:

χ<sub>NOx</sub> = measured NO<sub>X</sub> emission concentration in the sample, after dry-to-wet and background corrections.

*H*<sub>s</sub> = humidity scale. Set = 1 for FTP, US06, LA-92, and HFET test cycles. Set = 0.8825 for the SC03 test cycle.

*H* = ambient humidity, as determined in paragraph (a)(1) of this section.

*H* = 7.14741 g H<sub>2</sub>O vapor/kg dry air time weighted over the FTP test cycle

χ<sub>NOx</sub> = 1.21 ppm

(b) For vehicles above 14,000 pounds GVWR, apply correction factors as described in 40 CFR 1065.670.

[80 FR 9121, Feb. 19, 2015, as amended at 81 FR 74207, Oct. 25, 2016]