On a New Method for the Rapid Determination of the Strength of Industrial Emissions of a Pollutant

Abstract

A method has been developed for the operational determination of the strength of industrial emissions of a pollutant by an APS without direct measurements of concentrations and parameters in it, which relates to industrial ecology and can be used in the state environmental control or monitoring system to increase its effectiveness and responsiveness. The essence of the method is to use the information provided by public authorities. An information base is being created for all organized APS located in the observed urbanized area, which contains information about the sources of pollutant emissions and their characteristics; establishes the fact of unauthorized pollutant release by detecting elevated concentrations of various pollutants in the observed area according to the results of quantitative chemical analysis of atmospheric air samples and determines their ratio; the inverse dispersion problem is solved and the area of the location of sources of unauthorized pollutant emissions is identified, the source of unauthorized pollutant emissions is determined, and then the strength of this pollutant emission is estimated (Mi, g/s).