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Development of Mobile Tracer Correlation Approach for Quantification of Emissions from Landfills and Other Large Area Sources
Citation:
Footer, T., E. Thoma, W. Stevens, J. Dewees, R. Green, G. Hater, AND N. Swan. Development of Mobile Tracer Correlation Approach for Quantification of Emissions from Landfills and Other Large Area Sources. Presented at AWMA Symposium on Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology, Durham, NC, April 24 - 26, 2012.
Impact/Purpose:
AWMA Symposium on Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology. This is an extended abstract for platform presentaion. The purpose of this porduct is to update current methods development status on the CRDS approach described below.
Description:
There is a recognized need to develop cost effective measurement methods for greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from large area sources such as landfills, waste water treatment ponds, open area processing units, agricultural operations, CO2 sequestration fields, and site remediation activities. On-site emission measurements from large area sources are complicated by their spatial extent and heterogeneous nature. Emerging instrument technologies such as CRDS are showing promise in improving the simplicity, sensitivity, and sampling flexibility of area source emission characterizing efforts. In principle, off-site observations from kilometer-scale standoff distances enable estimates of emissions from the entire source footprint. This whole-facility approach provides a complimentary assessment of emissions to that found by discrete point quantification and may offer some measurement and implementation cost advantages over on-site approaches.
