Central power generation versus distributed generation - An air quality assessment in the South Coast Air Basin of California

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 3215-3223

  Carreras Sospedra, Marc ^a   Vutukuru, Satish ^b   Brouwer, Jacob ^c   Dabdub, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Central generation; Distributed generation; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

AIR BASINS; AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY IMPACTS; AIR QUALITY MODELING; AIR QUALITY MODELS; CENTRAL POWER PLANTS; COASTAL AREA; COMBINED CYCLE GAS TURBINE SYSTEMS; DG TECHNOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS; KEY PARAMETERS; NON-LINEAR; POLLUTANT EXPOSURES; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POWER DEMANDS; SMALL AREA; SOUTH COAST AIR BASIN OF CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; GALERKIN METHODS; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS TURBINES; LOCATION; OZONE; POWER PLANTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

QUALITY CONTROL;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COASTAL ZONE; OZONE; POWER GENERATION; REACTIVATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBINE; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CENTRAL POWER GENERATION; COASTAL PLAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EXHAUST GAS; EXPOSURE; GAS TURBINE POWER; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WIND;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954658344     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.05.017     Document Type: Article

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