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Optical tomography system based on modified simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique is designed to real-time monitor spatial distribution and diffusion process of smoke plume in a power plant. Concentration profiles, rather than just a point value, of smoke plume concentrations are the goal of this method, and the tomography algorithm is analyzed. According to incomplete projection data in the process of reconstruction and exiting noise interference, the modified simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT) is adopted to extract the information of the trace gas concentration by a fan beam scanning and is compared to the conventional SIRT. Three evaluation indexes show that the reconstruction effect is the best by choosing proper relaxation factor, which reduces the index d to 0.044 from 0.435 and reduces the index r to 0.044 from 0.376 for 5500 iterations. Hence, the modified algorithm performs better in estimating the shape of the plume, this method is used to process the measured spectra in field campaign, the reconstruction results and the measured data are basically consistent, which is further confirmed by the experimental results.

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Measurements of atmospheric benzene and toluene were carried out continuously using differential optical absorption spectroscopy from August 7 to August 28 in Beijing during the period of vehicular restrictions. The correlations between traffic flows and totals of benzene and toluene were studied during the period of vehicular traffic restrictions from August 17 to August 20 and non-traffic restrictions on August 16 and August 21. The correlation coefficient was 0.8 between benzene and toluene. And the calculated daily mean value ratios of benzene to toluene were 0.43–0.50. During the period of vehicular restrictions, traffic flows were reduced about 11.8% and the levels of benzene and toluene were reduced by 11.4% and 12.8%, respectively. The vehicle emissions were recognized as the major sources for atmospheric benzene and toluene in Beijing.