Prediction of atmospheric air pollution near a coal stack in adverse weather conditions

Abstract

Coal piles on the territory of enterprises are long-term sources of dust pollution of atmospheric air. Forecasting the level of dust pollution of the air for such objects is carried out, as a rule, for convection conditions. But during inversion, very high concentrations of dust can occur on industrial sites. The task of assessing the level of dust pollution of atmospheric air at an industrial site during dust emission in conditions of inversion from a coal stack is considered. A three-dimensional equation of convective-diffusion dispersion of contamination in atmospheric air, compatible with the approach of Prof. Berliand M. on determining the value of the vertical diffusion coefficient in the surface layer of the atmosphere for the case of inversion, to model dispersion of dust from a coal stack under inversion conditions is used. Numerical integration of the modeling equation of convective-diffusion transport of contamination is carried out on the basis of the splitting method compatible with the use of a locally one-dimensional finite-difference scheme. The results of a computational experiment to determine dust pollution zones at the Prydniprovsk thermal power station are presented.