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Dispersion from Point Sources• Pollutants emitted in plume form
www.epa.gov/.../muncpl/landfill/sw_combst.htm
Why does plume expand downwind?
What are the factors that influence the history of plume?
Impact on air quality depends on dispersion, which depends on the height of plume
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• Plume rise affects transport– Effects maximum ground level concentrations (MGLCs)
– Effects distance of MGLCs
Under what conditions can we have a higher Effective Stack Height?
www.atmos.ucla.edu/.../chimneyplumes/Note03.html
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Stack Plume: Looping
Q: Is it at stable or unstable condition? High or low wind speed?Does it happen during the day or night?Is it good for dispersing pollutants?
http://www.med.usf.edu/~npoor/3
Strong turbulence
http://www.uwm.edu/~kahl/CoVis/Plume/stable.gif
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Strong wind, no turbulence
Stack Plume: Coning
What is the stability class? Good vertical mixing? On sunny or cloudy days?Good for dispersing pollutants?What is the ground level concentration as a function of
distance from the stack?
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Q: What is the stability class? What is the top view of the plume? What is the ground level concentration as a function of
distance from the stack?
http://www.med.usf.edu/~npoor/4
Stack Plume: Fanning
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Q: Why can’t the pollutants be dispersed upward? Does it happen during the day or night? What’s your opinion about requiring power plants to reduce
their power output from 3 am to 3 hours after sunrise? What is the ground level concentration as a function of
distance from the stack?
Stack Plume: Fumigation
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Q: Why can’t the pollutants be dispersed downward? When does it happen? Lofting is a transition stage. To which type of plume? What is the ground level concentration as a function of
distance from the stack?
Stack Plume: Lofting
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Q: What is the stability class?What is the ground level concentration as a function of distance from the stack?
http://www.uwm.edu/~kahl/CoVis/Plume/
Stack Plume: Trapping
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Effect of Surface Discontinuity
Cold land Warm water
Warm land Cold water
Q: What is the ground level concentration as a function of distance from the stack?
(b)
(c)
Warm land Cold water
(a)
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Effects of Terrain on the Plume Pattern
Q: Does the shape of the building matter? Is the wake bigger at stable or unstable condition?
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Q: Is stack height an important parameter?
Backwash
Downwash
Impact of Building and Stack Location
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Impact of Stack Height: Stack Upwind of Building
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Impact of Stack Height: Building Supported Stack
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Impact of Stack Height: Stack Downwind of Building
Conclusions?
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Cases of Downwash
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Plume Affected by Natural Terrain Irregularity
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Unstable Stable
Plume Near Very Large Obstacle
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Plume in a Valley
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Heat Island Effect
Q: When does the effect break?
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Plume Affected by Heat Island Effect
Toward a city Within a city
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Long-Range Transport• Transport of pollutants hundreds/thousands of miles;
resulting in air quality problems far away from the source
Examples?
Planetary Transport• Stable air above PBL retards vertical mixing
• Transport out of PBL to free troposphere takes few hours to few days
• Transport to top of troposphere with uniform mixing takes about a week (for long-lived pollutants, e.g. CO2, CH4, CFC)
Why only long-lived?Aerosol & Particulate Research Lab
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SummaryTake 2 minutes to summarize here what you have learned from this section