Air Pollution Monitoring Changes to Accompany the Transition from a Control to a Systems Focus

Vallero, Daniel A.

doi:10.3390/su8121216

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“…A realistic simulation of pollutant dispersion is needed to properly assess the economic costs of atmospheric impact by the plant. Moreover, the availability of accurate and extended (both in time and space) pollutant concentration fields, having a suitable spatio-temporal resolution, reduces the uncertainty in estimates of population exposure to atmospheric pollution [9].…”

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Impact Assessment of Pollutant Emissions in the Atmosphere from a Power Plant over a Complex Terrain and under Unsteady Winds

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Abstract:The development of a natural gas-fired tri-generation power plant (520 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbines + 58 MW Tri-generation) in the Republic of San Marino, a small independent country in Northern Italy, is under assessment. This work investigates the impact of atmospheric emissions of NO x by the plant, under the Italian and European regulatory framework. The impact assessment was performed by the means of the Aria Industry package, including the 3D Lagrangian stochastic particle dispersion model SPRAY, the diagnostic meteorological model SWIFT, and the turbulence model SURFPRO (Aria Technologies, France, and Arianet, Italy). The Republic of San Marino is almost completely mountainous, 10 km west of the Adriatic Sea and affected by land-sea breeze circulation. SPRAY is suitable for simulations under non-homogenous and non-stationary conditions, over a complex topography. The emission scenario included both a worst-case meteorological condition and three 10-day periods representative of typical atmospheric conditions for 2014. The simulated NO x concentrations were compared with the regulatory air quality limits. Notwithstanding the high emission rate, the simulation showed a spatially confined environmental impact, with only a single NO x peak at ground where the plume hits the hillside of the Mount Titano (749 m a.s.l.), 5 km west of the future power plant.

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Impact Assessment of Pollutant Emissions in the Atmosphere from a Power Plant over a Complex Terrain and under Unsteady Winds

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“…Over time, many researchers have investigated issues related to the compliance of companies with imposed pollution norms as well as the effects of inspections and controls carried out by national authorities [8,13,27,33,36,43,47]. Literature research usually looks at issues of a legal rather than economic nature [2,5,42].…”

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Air-Pollution Control in an Emergent Market: Does It Work? Evidence from Romania

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Dănescu

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2020

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Economic development in a national and international context must be based on a sustainability strategy established on the systemic interaction between the economic, sociocultural, and ecological environments. Today, the world is confronted by many challenges related to climate change and natural-resource flows, including waste streams resulting from economic activity. The need for national and European environmental standards and the work of an environment monitoring authority to reduce air pollution are highlighted by economic and industrial activities. Thus, our research focused on determining if emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen (NO2), and particulate matter 10 (PM10) are influenced by planned and unplanned inspections made by competent authorities from Romania. We built a regression model that estimates the influence of economic measures imposed by the authorities on reducing industrial air pollution. Preliminary results showed that the number of inspections negatively influences air pollution, indicating that national and local authorities in Romania are striving to maintain air quality and are conducting more inspections when air pollution is high.

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“…Table 9 lists the results. We next calculate the relative distance from the sample point to the optimal sampling point according to Equation (12) and obtain the results as shown in Table 10. In addition, Table 10 also lists the rankings of C(air pollution) ordered by years.…”

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“…Air pollution is mainly due to the air pollutant emissions [7][8][9], the rapid urban growth [10] and the shrinking green space [11]. Recently, a number of control technologies on air pollution have been proposed and developed [12]. One of the most important prerequisites of the effective prevention of air pollution lies in the evaluation of air pollution on socioeconomic development.…”

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A Smart MCDM Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Air Pollution on City Sustainability: A Case Study from China

2017

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Abstract:Air pollution has become one of the key environmental concerns in the urban sustainable development. It is important to evaluate the impact of air pollution on socioeconomic development since it is the prerequisite to enforce an effective prevention policy of air pollution. In this paper, we model the impact of air pollution on the urban economic development as a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. In particular, we propose a novel Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) analysis framework to evaluate multiple factors of air pollutants and economic development. Our method can overcome the drawbacks of conventional TOPSIS methods by using Bayesian regularization and the Back-Propagation (BP) neural network to optimize the weight training process. We have conducted a case study to evaluate our proposed framework.

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Air Pollution Monitoring Changes to Accompany the Transition from a Control to a Systems Focus

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Impact Assessment of Pollutant Emissions in the Atmosphere from a Power Plant over a Complex Terrain and under Unsteady Winds

Impact Assessment of Pollutant Emissions in the Atmosphere from a Power Plant over a Complex Terrain and under Unsteady Winds

Air-Pollution Control in an Emergent Market: Does It Work? Evidence from Romania

A Smart MCDM Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Air Pollution on City Sustainability: A Case Study from China

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