Study on the Countermeasures of SO<sub>2</sub> Emission Reduction in Chengdu Economic Circle

Abstract

Based on a detailed survey on the source and volume of SO2 emission over Chengdu economic circle, the third-generation air quality model CMAQ is adopted for simulating the concentration of SO2 in the air over Chengdu Economic Circle. The results show that the hourly average concentration, daily average concentration and annual average concentration of SO2 in air exceed the limit of national standard, and the affected areas respectively account for 0.12%, 0.18% and 0.03% of the total area of the economic circle. Meanwhile, according to the result of calculation, the SO2 emissions of thermal power plants, chemical industry, building materials plants and industrial area sources make the largest contribution to the SO2 concentration in the air, with ratios of 36.15%, 18.67%, 11.81% and 8.34% respectively. thus,main measures to reduce emissions of SO2 in Chengdu economic circle are proposed as follows: focusing on the control of the emissions of SO2 from industrial enterprises, especially in the thermal power plants, chemical industry, building materials plants as well as industrial boilers; joint prevention and control measures should be implemented between the cities, so as to reduce the interaction caused dy emissions of SO2. With the application of the above measures, the total SO2 emissions can be reduced by 50% and the concentration of SO2 in the air can meet with the Class II of national ambient air quality Standard.