Localizing gaseous fugitive emission sources by combining real-time optical remote sensing and wind data.
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
- Vol. 49 (11), 1374-1379
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10473289.1999.10463970
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach to localize point emissions from ground-level fugitive gaseous air pollution sources. We estimate the crosswind plume's ground-level peak location downwind from the source by combining smooth basis functions minimization (SBFM) with pathintegrated optical remote sensing concentration data acquired along the crosswind direction in alternating beam path lengths. Peak location estimates, in conjunction with real-time measured wind direction data, are used to reconstruct the fugitive source location. We conducted a synthetic data study to evaluate the proposed peak location SBFM reconstruction. Furthermore, the methodology was validated with open-path Fourier transform infrared concentration data collected with wind direction data downwind from a controlled point source. This approach was found to provide reasonable estimates of point source location. The field study reconstructed source location was within several meters of the real source location.Keywords
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