| Title: | Speciated VOCs emission estimate for a typical petrochemical manufacturing plant in China using inverse-dispersion calculation method |
| Author(s): | Wei W; Wang Y; Yang G; Yue L; Cheng S; |
| Address: | "Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China. weiwei@bjut.edu.cn. Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing, 100124, China. weiwei@bjut.edu.cn. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China. Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing, 100124, China" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10661-018-6834-9 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-2959 (Electronic) 0167-6369 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play a key role in air pollution of China. Among various sources, petrochemical industry is one of the important contributors, but its VOC emission estimate still exists a big uncertainty. Therefore, this study developed an inverse-dispersion calculation method (IDM), and applied it in a typical petrochemical plant that manufactures ethylene (170 kt/year), polyethylene (100 kt/year), and polypropylene (61 kt/year), and determined the VOC emission amount for this complex industrial area source. Firstly, this study monitored VOC concentrations around this plant in April of 2017, and found that the VOCs at downwind receptors was obviously higher than the level at background, higher by 20.7 ppb on average. This VOC increment was mainly contributed by ethylene (30.4%), propylene (17.8%), pentanes (16.4%), and butanes (13.4%), which is consistent with the knowledge of VOC components emitted from the manufacturing of ethylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene. Then, by using the inverse-dispersion calculation method (IDM), we determined the relationship coefficient gamma between source emission rate and ambient concentration for each receptor of each test based on an assumed source emission rate, combined gamma with the actual VOC concentrations measured in monitoring tests, and estimated the average VOCs emission of 666.0 tons/year for this plant, including 18.1 tons for ethane, 21.1 tons for propane, 61.6 tons for isobutane, 44.3 tons for n-butane, 79.3 tons for isopentane, 56.8 tons for n-pentane, 115.4 tons for ethylene, 102.5 tons for propylene, 92.7 tons for benzene, and 74.1 tons for toluene. Our IDM estimate was in the same order with the traditional emission factor method estimate (916.4 tons VOCs per year for this plant), and we believed the IDM can be applied to effectively estimate the VOCs emissions for those complicated industrial sources" |
| Keywords: | Air Pollutants/*analysis Air Pollution/statistics & numerical data Benzene/analysis China Environmental Monitoring/*methods Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities Pentanes/analysis Toluene/analysis Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis Area source Inverse; |
| Notes: | "MedlineWei, Wei Wang, Yating Yang, Gan Yue, Li Cheng, Shuiyuan eng 51478017/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ 51678007/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ Z171100001117098/Beijing NOVA Plan of Science and Technology/ Netherlands 2018/07/10 Environ Monit Assess. 2018 Jul 7; 190(8):451. doi: 10.1007/s10661-018-6834-9" |
