Dispersion modelling and mapping studies for review and assessment of PM10

A report produced for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, The Welsh Office, The Scottish Office and Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland
March 1999
Authors John Abbott and John Stedman, NETCEN, AEA Technology

Contents
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Executive Summary
1 Introduction
       1.1 BACKGROUND
       1.2 GRAVIMETRIC MEASUREMENT DATA
       1.3 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 90 TH PERCENTILE 24-HOUR CONCENTRATIONS AND THE ANNUAL MEAN
2 Screening tool for domestic coal burning
       2.1 INTRODUCTION
       2.2 DISPERSION MODELLING
       2.3 REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE
       2.4 EXAMPLES
              2.4.1 A small coal burning village
              2.4.2 A town with significant coal burning
              2.4.3 A city
3 Industrial stacks
       3.1 INTRODUCTION
       3.2 THE DISPERSION MODEL
              3.2.1 Sources modelled
              3.2.2 Meteorological data
              3.2.3 Receptors
              3.2.4 Calculation of percentiles
              3.2.5 Results
       3.3 THE ADDITION OF BACKGROUND CONCENTRATIONS
       3.4 THE REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE
       3.5 EXAMPLE
4 Mapping studies
       4.1 INTRODUCTION
       4.2 SOURCE APPORTIONMENT OF PM10
       4.3 A MAP OF SECONDARY PM10FOR 1996
       4.4 A MAP OF TOTAL PM10FOR 2004
              4.4.1 Introduction
              4.4.2 1996
              4.4.3 2004
       4.5 AN ALTERNATIVE MAP OF TOTAL PM10FOR 2004
5 References

Figures
  1. Maximum number of people in coal burning households per square km and estimated annual mean background PM10 concentrations
  2. Maximum number of people in households burning Solid Smokeless Fuel per square km and estimated annual mean background PM10 concentrations
  3. Maximum 90 th percentile stack contribution leading to risk of exceedence of proposed PM10 objective for a range of annual mean background concentrations
  4. Estimated annual mean secondary PM10 concentration, 1996
  5. Estimated annual mean total PM10 concentrations
Executive Summary
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