Influential parameters on ultrafine particle concentration downwind at waste-to-energy plants

Waste Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 157-163

  Scungio, Mauro ^a   Buonanno, Giorgio ^a,b   Arpino, Fausto ^a   Ficco, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incinerator; Numerical simulation; Plume rise; Ultrafine particles; Waste treatment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; CHIMNEYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUE GASES; FLUES; GAS PLANTS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REFUSE INCINERATORS; TURBULENCE MODELS; WASTE TREATMENT; WIND;

BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PLUME RISE; TURBULENT CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; ULTRAFINE PARTICLES EMISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INCINERATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE; WASTE TREATMENT;

ABSORPTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHIMNEY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; INCINERATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT; WIND; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCINERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84933673372     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Andersen Z.J., Wahlin P., Raaschou-Nielsen O., Ketzel M., Scheike T., Loft S. Size distribution and total number concentration of ultrafine and accumulation mode particles and hospital admissions in children and elderly in Copenhagen. Occup. Environ. Med. 2008, 65:458-466.
2. Baron P.A., Willeke K. Aerosol Measurement - Principles, Techniques and Applications 2001, Wiley Interscience. second ed.
3. Buonanno G., Anastasi P., Di Iorio F., Viola A. Ultrafine particle apportionment and exposure assessment in respect of linear and point sources. Atmos. Pollut. Res. 2010, 1:36-43.
4. Buonanno G., Dell'Isola M., Stabile L., Viola A. Critical aspects of the uncertainty budget in the gravimetric PM measurements. Meas.: J. Int. Meas. Confederation 2011, 44:139-147.
5. Buonanno G., Ficco G., Stabile L. Size distribution and number concentration of particles at the stack of a municipal waste incinerator. Waste Manage. 2009, 29:749-755.
6. Buonanno G., Lall A.A., Stabile L. Temporal size distribution and concentration of particles near a major highway. Atmos. Environ. 2009, 43:1100-1105.
7. Buonanno G., Morawska L. Ultrafine particle emission of waste incinerators and comparison to the exposure of urban citizens. Waste Manage. 2014.
8. Buonanno, G., Morawska, L., 2014b. Ultrafine particle emission of waste incinerators and comparison to the exposure of urban citizens Waste Manage. 37, 75-81.
9. Buonanno G., Scungio M., Stabile L., Tirler W. Ultrafine particle emission from incinerators: the role of the fabric filter. J. Air Waste Manag. Assoc. 2012, 62:103-111.
10. Buonanno G., Stabile L., Avino P., Vanoli R. Dimensional and chemical characterization of particles at a downwind receptor site of a waste-to-energy plant. Waste Manage. 2010, 30:1325-1333.
11. Cass G.R., Hughes L.A., Bhave P., Kleeman M.J., Allen J.O., Salmon L.G. The chemical composition of atmospheric ultrafine particles. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. A 2000, 358:2581-2592.
12. Cernuschi S., Giugliano M., Ozgen S., Consonni S. Number concentration and chemical composition of ultrafine and nanoparticles from WTE (waste to energy) plants. Sci. Total Environ. 2012, 420:319-326.
13. De Lemos M.J.S., Dórea F.T. Simulation of a turbulent impinging jet into a layer of porous material using a two-energy equation model. Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Appl. 2011, 59:769-798.
14. Eiguren-Fernandez A., Shinyashiki M., Schmitz D.A., DiStefano E., Hinds W., Kumagai Y., Cho A.K., Froines J.R. Redox and electrophilic properties of vapor- and particle-phase components of ambient aerosols. Environ. Res. 2010, 110:207-212.
15. European Commission, 2006. Reference Document on the Best Available Techniques for Waste Incineration (BREF).
16. Han, J., Arya, S.P., Shen, S., Lin, Y.L., 2000. An estimation of turbulent kinetic energy and energy dissipation rate based on atmospheric boundary layer similarity theory. NASA/CR-2000-210298.
17. Hargreaves D.M., Wright N.G. On the use of the k-ε model in commercial CFD software to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer. J. Wind Eng. Ind. Aerodyn. 2007, 95:355-369.
18. Hinds W.C. Aerosol Technology 1999, John Wiley & Sons, INC. second ed.
19. König C.S., Mokhtarzadeh-Dehghan M.R. Numerical study of buoyant plumes from a multi-flue chimney released into an atmospheric boundary layer. Atmos. Environ. 2002, 36:3951-3962.
20. Launder B., Spalding D. The numerical computation of turbulent flows. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 1974, 3:269-289.
21. Loomis D., Grosse Y., Lauby-Secretan B., Ghissassi F.E., Bouvard V., Benbrahim-Tallaa L., Guha N., Baan R., Mattock H., Straif K. The carcinogenicity of outdoor air pollution. Lancet Oncol. 2013, 14:1262-1263.
22. Maguhn J., Karg E., Kettrup A., Zimmermann R. On-line analysis of the size distribution of fine and ultrafine aerosol particles in flue and stack gas of a municipal waste incineration plant: effects of dynamic process control measures and emission reduction devices. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37:4761-4770.
23. Møller P., Folkmann J.K., Forchhammer L., Bräuner E.V., Danielsen P.H., Risom L., Loft S. Air pollution, oxidative damage to DNA, and carcinogenesis. Cancer Lett. 2008, 266:84-97.
24. Moreira D., Vilhena M. Air Pollution and Turbulence: Modeling and Applications 2010, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
25. Nel A., Xia T., Madler L., Li N. Toxic potential of materials at the nanolevel. Science 2006, 311:622-627.
26. Ragazzi M., Tirler W., Angelucci G., Zardi D., Rada E.C. Management of atmospheric pollutants from waste incineration processes: The case of Bozen. Waste Manage. Res. 2013, 31:235-240.
27. UK Department for Environment, F.R.A., 1999. Source apportionment of airborne particulate matter in the United Kingdom.
28. US Environmental Protection Agency, 2000. National Air Pollutant Emission Trends: 1900-1998.
29. Zeuthen J.H., Pedersen A.J., Hansen J., Frandsen F.J., Livbjerg H., Riber C., Astrup T. Combustion aerosols from municipal waste incineration - effect of fuel feedstock and plant operation. Combust. Sci. Technol. 2007, 179:2171-2198.