Abstract

Field measurements were made of greenhouse gas emissions from a wastewater treatment system using open path monitoring with detection by FTIR spectroscopy. Emission rates were determined by the ratio technique using a sulfur hexafluoride tracer gas released from a line source. As a quality control check, a second tracer gas – ethylene – was released from various single point locations. This paper presents a comparison of the line-source and point-source tracer releases for approximating emissions from the area source. The two types of tracer release showed excellent agreement when both release points were two hundred meters from the FTIR beam path. Data for other release points also were comparable, once differences in vertical dispersion as a function of distance are taken into account.

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