Impacts of emission variability and flare combustion efficiency on ozone formation in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 12593-12599

  Pavlovic, Radovan T ^a   Al Fadhli, Fahad M ^a   Kimura, Yosuke ^a   Allen, David T ^a   McDonald Buller, Elena C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; FLARE COMBUSTION; FLARE EMISSION; LOW HEATING VALUES; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE FORMATION; OZONE FORMATION POTENTIALS; SPATIAL EXTENT; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

COMBUSTION; FLOW RATE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

OZONE;

EID: 84867091990     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie203052w     Document Type: Article

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