3rd ACI Airport Environmental Seminar

Local Air Quality and Airport Source Apportionment

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LAX

Air Quality &

Source Apportionment Study

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World’s 6th Busiest @ 67 MAP / 600,000+ Ops. (Tokyo @ 57 MAP)

2nd Most Populated Area in U.S.

Four Parallel Runways / Nine Terminals

$4B+(U.S) Modernization Program

LAX Looking West

LAX Looking East

International Terminal

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Sponsor: Los Angeles World Airports

Time/Costs: Five Years (2008 – 13) $5M+U.S.

Motive: LAX Master Plan Commitment

Purpose: Assess Contribution of On-Airport Sources to Off-airport Concentrations

Qualification: Not a Human Health Effects Study

www.lawa.org/airqualitystudy/

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1. Local Air Quality

2. Source Apportionment

Source A

Source B

Source C

Receptor

Westchester Community

Park North of LAX

LAX Entrance

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LAX Study Area

Core Station

Satellite Station

Gradient Station

Station Type

Community South – CS

AQ Site

Community North - CN

Community East – CE

Wind Rose

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Motor Vehicle Traffic

Power Plant & Oil Refineries

El Segundo Power Plant Maritime Shipping

Marine Vessels

Interstate 405

Area Sources

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Emissions Inventories

Modeling

Source Based

Receptor Based

Source Activity Levels

Airport (Ops., GSE, etc.)

Non-Airport (motor vehicle & ship traffic, stationary sources)

Air Quality Monitoring (CO, NO2, SO2, PM2.5, UFP, HAPs, BC, meteorology)

Monitoring

Activity Levels

Emissions Inventories

Modeling

Source Apportionment

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Community Site

Gradient Site

Mobile Van

Runways

Roadways

Taxiways

Aprons

Aprons Parking Facilities LAX Point Sources Point Sources Area Sources

Marine Vessels Receptors

Results

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Stationary Reference

Monitor for Mobile Survey

NOx

PM2.5

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Mike Kenney

MKenney@KBEnv.com.