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Main Title Downwash of Plumes in the Vicinity of Buildings: A Wind-Tunnel Study (Book Chapter).
Author Snyder, W. H. ;
CORP Author National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Div.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab.
Publisher c1994
Year Published 1994
Report Number EPA/600/A-94/144;
Stock Number PB94-197431
Additional Subjects Air pollution dispersion ; Wind tunnel tests ; Electric power plants ; Diffusion monitoring ; Air pollution monitoring ; Emission factors ; Buildings ; Stack gases ; Plumes ; Gaseous wastes ; Air flow ; Pollution transport ; Flow distribution ; Wind effects ; Turbulent flow ; Atmospheric transport ; Dissipation ; Wind(Meteorology) ; Mathematical models Reprints ;
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Abstract
A wind-tunnel study has been conducted to examine the effects of several parameters on the downwash of effluents released from stacks in the vicinity of rectangular-shaped buildings. The situations modeled included idealized or generic steam-boiler and combustion-turbine electric-generating plants. Systematically varied were parameters such as the stack height, location of stack, wind direction, effluent-speed to wind-speed ratio, and effluent buoyancy. Measurements included over 300 concentration profiles. Vertical profiles were measured at a fixed distance downwind, both in the presence and in the absence of the buildings, to ascertain the building effects. In several of the more interesting cases, more extensive measurements were made to more fully describe the entire concentration field. The data set should prove especially useful to the mathematicians attempting to develop models to predict concentration fields when a plume is downwashed in the presence of a structure. (Copyright (C) 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers).