The World Health Organization, Federal and Germany air quality indexes have the next upper limits:

Pollutant	Period	Federal	WHO	Ta Luft (Germany)
CO	15 min 30 min 1 h 8 h	40.000 ug/m3 10.000 ug/m3	100.000 ug/m3 60.000 ug/m3 30.000 ug/m3 10.000 ug/m3	30.000 ug/m3 10.000 ug/m3
NO2	1 h 24 h annual	100 ug/m3	400 ug/m3 150 ug/m3	200 ug/m3 80 ug/m3
O3	1 h 24 h 100 days	235 ug/m3	200 ug/m3 65 ug/m3 60 ug/m3
SO2	10 min 1 h 3 h 24 h annual	1.300 ug/m3 365 ug/m3 80 ug/m3	500 ug/m3 350 ug/m3   125 ug/m3 40 – 60 ug/m3	400 ug/m3 140 ug/m3 60 ug/m3
PM-10	24 h anual	150 ug/m3 50 ug/m3	125 ug/m3 50 ug/m3	150–300 ug/m3
SO2+PM-10	annual		60 – 90 ug/m3
Pb	3 months anual	1,5 ug/m3	0,5 – 1 ug/m3	2 ug/m3
PM + PM-10	24 h annual	260 ug/m3 75 ug/m3
Hydrocarbons	3 h	160 ug/m3

Pollutant emissions

In this section, we will show typical emission values that can be used as input data in the DISPER software:

Typical coal boiler emissions:

Coal boiler power	Coal kg per second (kg/s)	SOx	NOx	CO
100 MW	3,3 g/s	201 g/s	48 g/s	0,8 g/s
500 MW	16,5 g/s	1.005 g/s	240 g/s	4 g/s
1.000 MW	33 g/s	2.010 g/s	480 g/s	8 g/s
1.500 MW	49,7 g/s	3.023 g/s	721 g/s	12,4 g/s
2.000 MW	66 g/s	4.020 g/s	960 g/s	16 g/s

 

Typical fuel oil boiler emissions:

Boiler power	Fuel oil liters per second (L/s)	SO2	NOx	CO
50 MW	1,2 g/s	72 g/s	6,7 g/s	0,7 g/s
100 MW	2,4 g/s	144 g/s	13,4 g/s	1,4 g/s
150 MW	3,6 g/s	210 g/s	20,2 g/s	2,1 g/s
200 MW	4,8 g/s	280 g/s	26,8 g/s	2,8 g/s
300 MW	7,2 g/s	432 g/s	40,2 g/s	4,2 g/s

 

Typical butane boiler emissions:

Boiler power	Liters of butane per second (L/s)	SOx	NOx	CO
3 MW	0,11 g/s	0,0079 g/s	0,28 g/s	0,047 g/s
10 MW	0,37 g/s	0,027 g/s	0,93 g/s	0,159 g/s
20 MW	0,74 g/s	0,053 g/s	1,86 g/s	0,32 g/s
30 MW	1,1 g/s	0,079 g/s	2,77 g/s	0,47 g/s

 

Typical road emision:

Number of vehicles per hour	CO (g/ms)	NOx (g/ms)	CxHy (g/ms)
100	0,00028	0,00009	0,000028
1.000	0,0028	0,0009	0,00028
5.000	0,014	0,0042	0,0014
10.000	0,028	0,009	0,0028
50.000	0,135	0,042	0,0135
100.000	0,28	0,09	0,028

Number of vehicles per day	CO (g/ms)	NOx (g/ms)	CxHy (g/ms)
1.000	0,000116	0,0000375	0,0000116
5.000	0,00058	0,00019	0,000058
10.000	0,00116	0,000375	0,000116
50.000	0,0058	0,0019	0,00058
100.000	0,0116	0,00375	0,00116

 

 

Pollution map (XZ-Plane) produced by continuous discharge in this region. The fucshia lines represents a stack (position of the point sources) in a XZ-Plane. The red colour represents high pollutant concentrations. The green colour represents the ground and the surface topography.

 

Pollution map (XZ-Plane) produced by continuous discharge in this region. The fucshia lines represents a stack (position of the three point sources) in a XZ-Plane. The red colour represents high pollutant concentrations. The green colour represents the ground and the surface topography.

 

 

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