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J Air Waste Manag Assoc

Title:		Autonomous mobile platform for monitoring air emissions from industrial and municipal wastewater ponds
Author(s):		Fu L; Huda Q; Yang Z; Zhang L; Hashisho Z;
Address:		"a Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Alberta Environment and Parks , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada. b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada"
Journal Title:		J Air Waste Manag Assoc
Year:		2017
Volume:		67
Issue:		11
Page Number:		1205 - 1212
DOI:		10.1080/10962247.2017.1285832
ISSN/ISBN:		2162-2906 (Electronic) 1096-2247 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Significant amounts of volatile organic compounds and greenhouse gases are generated from wastewater lagoons and tailings ponds in Alberta, Canada. Accurate measurements of these air pollutants and greenhouse gases are needed to support management and regulatory decisions. A mobile platform was developed to measure air emissions from tailings pond in the oil sands region of Alberta. The mobile platform was tested in 2015 in a municipal wastewater treatment lagoon. With a flux chamber and a CO(2)/CH(4) sensor on board, the mobile platform was able to measure CO(2) and CH(4) emissions over two days at two different locations in the pond. Flux emission rates of CO(2) and CH(4) that were measured over the study period suggest the presence of aerobic and anaerobic zones in the wastewater treatment lagoon. The study demonstrated the capabilities of the mobile platform in measuring fugitive air emissions and identified the potential for the applications in air and water quality monitoring programs. IMPLICATIONS: The Mobile Platform demonstrated in this study has the ability to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fugitive sources such as municipal wastewater lagoons. This technology can be used to measure emission fluxes from tailings ponds with better detection of spatial and temporal variations of fugitive emissions. Additional air and water sampling equipment could be added to the mobile platform for a broad range of air and water quality studies in the oil sands region of Alberta"
Keywords:		Air Pollutants/*analysis Alberta Carbon Dioxide/analysis/chemistry Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation/*methods Methane/analysis/chemistry Oil and Gas Fields Ponds/*chemistry Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis/chemistry Wastewater/*chemistry;
Notes:		"MedlineFu, Long Huda, Quamrul Yang, Zheng Zhang, Lucas Hashisho, Zaher eng 2017/02/06 J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2017 Nov; 67(11):1205-1212. doi: 10.1080/10962247.2017.1285832"