EUPHORE is
one of the best photochemical smog reactors in the world, constructed
for the simulation of the chemical processes in the atmosphere.
It is owned and operated by CEAM, La Fundación Centro de Estudios
Ambientales del Mediterráneo (The Mediterranean Environmental Training
Centre).
Each reactor consists of a hemispheric structure of
transparent, single skin ETFE, which allows the simulation of the
atmospheric conditions of aerial masses, the study of the photochemical
processes and the effect of sunlight. The internal area is slightly
pressurised in order to maintain the structural form.
A moving
steel shell encloses the laboratory in order to protect the high tech
envelope from damage in high winds and to control the amount of light
that the chamber is exposed to.