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Environmental Pollution Control

(ET ZC362 – WILP Course)

BITS Pilani Lakshmi Sirisha


Department of Chemical Engineering
Hyderabad Campus
Session 4
18th August, 2018
Topics to be covered:
Chapter 3 : Meteorological aspects of air pollutant
dispersion
• Temperature lapse rates and stability
• Wind velocity and turbulence
• Plume behavior
• Dispersion of air pollutants
• Estimation of plume rise
• Problems – Atleast 2

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Temperature lapse rates, stability


and wind velocity
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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

https://www.environmentalpollutioncenters.org/air/

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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

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Temperature lapse rates

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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

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Temperature lapse rates and
stability

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Atmospheric stability

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Wind velocity and turbulence

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Wind velocity and turbulence

Wind velocity also gets affected by the time of the day.


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Wind velocity and turbulence

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Wind velocity and turbulence

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Wind velocity and turbulence

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Plume Behaviour and dispersion of


air pollutants
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Plume Behaviour

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Plume Behaviour

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Plume Behaviour

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Plume Behaviour

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Dispersion of air pollutants

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

Centre line concentration Distribution of mass in vertical


Distribution of mass in cross-wind dimension (z) at a given
dimension (y) at a given downwind downwind distance, x
distance, x

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

Estimation of plume rise, ∆𝑯

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Gaussian Dispersion Model

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Summary: Gaussian Dispersion
Model

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Problem-1

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End

Any Questions?

mail to
sirisha@hyderabad.bits.pilani.ac.in

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