VOCs Emission Inventory of Service Stations in a Subcenter (Tongzhou District) of the City of Beijing

Abstract

As a subcenter of the city of Beijing, Tongzhou District is faced with enormous pressure from the rapid growth of VOCs emissions from service stations. In this study, a set of bottom-up VOCs inventory estimation methods for service stations in Tongzhou District is established. Using local VOCs emission factors of service stations in Beijing, combined with gasoline and diesel sales from every service station, a high resolution VOCs emission inventory of service stations in Tongzhou District from 2015 to 2022 was established. The results showed the following. ①An online monitoring system (OMS) based on unloading, refueling, and tank pressure vapor emission control measures can reduce the VOCs emission factor from 190 mg·L-1 to 115 mg·L-1, and when the percent onboard refueling vapor recovery system (ORVR) Penetration reaches to about 50%, the emission factors can be reduced to 131 mg·L-1 and 96 mg·L-1, respectively. The VOCs emission factor (13 mg·L-1) of diesel from the service station is 0.8% of the uncontrolled emission factor (1552 mg·L-1) of gasoline. ②The amount of VOCs emissions from service stations in Tongzhou District was 97.8 t·a-1 in 2015, and the emissions of gasoline and diesel were 96.2 t·a-1 and 1.6 t·a-1, respectively, accounting for 98.4% and 1.6%. The emissions were mainly concentrated in the area surrounding the new Beijing Municipal Government site. ③After implementation of the vapor recovery requirements of "Beijing's Clean Air Action Plan from 2013-2017," considering the increase in oil sales from 2017 to 2022, VOCs emissions of gasoline and diesel from service stations will decrease by 9% and 6%, respectively, compared to those of 2015 in Tongzhou District. Assuming that the OMS will also be installed at 28 (2000-5000) t·a-1 service stations by the end of 2022, VOCs emissions of service stations will be reduce by 13% compared to those of 2015. ④The measure of restricting the number of vehicles in operation by 50% can reduce VOCs emissions of service stations by (22±12)% every day during 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC). ⑤It is suggested to strengthen vapor recovery supervision on service stations in the area surrounding the new Beijing Municipal Government site, and in summer and refueling idle such as in noon.