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Regulatory Approaches to Solve Air Pollution Problems
Published in Jeff Kuo, Air Pollution Control Engineering for Environmental Engineers, 2018
An emission inventory is a database that contains amounts of air pollutants discharged into the atmosphere from different sources/sectors over a specific time period. National emission inventories can be used to identify significant sources/sectors of air pollutants and use the information as the basis to target necessary regulatory actions. Emission inventories can also be essential input to mathematical models used to estimate air quality. The effect of potential regulatory actions on air quality can be predicted by applying the estimated reduction to the emission inventory data used in the air quality models.
Overview of air pollution
Published in Abhishek Tiwary, Ian Williams, Air Pollution, 2018
In an emissions inventory, data are collected for the three types of sources (line, area and point) within the selected geographical area. Clearly, it is impractical to measure every emission source in a large area. The majority of emissions are therefore estimated from other local information such as fuel consumption figures, vehicle kilometres travelled or some other activity relating to pollutant emissions. Emission factors are then applied to the activity data in order to estimate the likely emissions.
Transportation Planning
Published in Connie Kelly Tang, Lei Zhang, Principles and Practices of Transportation Planning and Engineering, 2021
An emission inventory is a quantification of emissions from all sources within a given geographical area (e.g., County, State) during a given period. Inventory data provides the foundation for state environmental regulatory agencies to develop plans and strategies to achieve air quality standards.
An interpretable prediction of FCM driven by small samples for energy analysis based on air quality prediction
Published in Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2022
Zhen Peng, Caixiao Zhang, Boyang Cao, Zitao Hong, Xue Han
Emission inventory is used to trace and analyze the sector pollution sources affecting air pollution. A reliable and latest source emission inventory is important. However, the establishment of source emission inventory is a time-consuming and labor-consuming work, which is hard to be updated in time. Cui, Lei, and Bo et al. (2020) analyzed the main emission source types (fixed combustion source, traffic source, living source, etc.) affecting air quality in Hainan Province based on emission inventories. Hu et al. (2021) established a high-resolution emission inventory of typical pollution sources including stationary source, mobile source, and oil and gas storage and transportation source. Bang et al. (2018) conducted a detailed air pollution emission inventory, studied the formation of the air pollution plume over Can Tho city, and found that transportation and industrial activities are the two main emission sources responsible for air pollutants. So the emission inventories are mainly for industrial analysis and lack to establish a relationship with various energy consumptions.
Transboundary atmospheric pollution in Southeast Asia: current methods, limitations and future developments
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2018
Emission inventory analysis (EIA) can be used to quantify local emissions of pollutants from sources in a given geographical area over a particular time span (answering question 1 in Box 1). Emission inventory involves compilation of a list of pollutant types, all possible emission sources and the corresponding source activity data, such as production (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme & European Environment Agency, 2016). The source activity data and the corresponding locational information are obtained from either statistical documents, such as national statistical yearbooks, or from satellite-based remote sensing (Simpson et al., 2016; Wooster, Roberts, Perry, and Kaufman, 2005). Thus, the quantity of a pollutant emitted from a given area is calculated by summing the emissions from every single source in that area (Equation 2).
Estimation of atmospheric emissions from maritime activity in the Veracruz port, Mexico
Published in Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2021
Gilberto Fuentes García, José María Baldasano Recio, Rodolfo Sosa Echeverría, Elías Granados Hernández, Eduardo Zamora Vargas, Rafael Antonio Duran, Jonathan W. Kahl
The results obtained in this study can be integrated into air quality models to identify dispersion at local and regional levels in port cities, for the purpose of determining concentration levels and impact zones. The emissions inventory can thus be used to quantify significant air pollutant sources for consideration in regulatory actions and to identify trends.