Air pollution modeling

Benarie, Michel

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(92)90273-u

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“…We use a one-compartment model (Benarie, 1980) to combine meteorological data on wind speed and mixing heights with demographic data on urban population and land area. This model is often assumed to be too simple to offer reasonable estimates of ambient concentrations in urban areas.…”

Section: One-compartment Modelmentioning

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Intake fraction of nonreactive vehicle emissions in US urban areas

Marshall

Teoh

Nazaroff

2005

Atmospheric Environment

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Intake fraction, which is the fraction of emissions that are inhaled by people, quantifies the ''exposure efficiency'' of an emission source. We use three methods to estimate intake fractions for vehicle emissions in US urban areas. First, we use a one-compartment steady-state mass-balance model, incorporating meteorological and demographic data. Second, we use an empirical emissions-to-concentration relationship for vehicle carbon monoxide developed for 15 US urban areas. Third, we analyze model results for benzene and diesel particulate matter from the US Environmental Protection Agency's National-scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA). The population-weighted mean intraurban intake fraction for nonreactive gaseous vehicle emissions in US urban areas is estimated to be in the range 7-21 per million, with a best estimate of 14 per million. The intake fraction for diesel particles is 4 per million, based on NATA results. An intake fraction of 4 per million means that 4 mg of pollution are inhaled per kg emitted. Intake fraction values for urban vehicle emissions are usually higher in winter than in summer because of seasonal variability in the atmospheric mixing height. The results presented in this work can be used in health risk assessments, cost-benefit analyses, and other investigations that require a summary of the emission-to-intake relationship. r

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Section: One-compartment Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The three methods incorporate three types of models: a straightforward one-compartment model (Benarie, 1980), an empirical model describing measured CO concentrations in 14 cities (Glen et al, 1996), and the EPA's most sophisticated national-scale exposure model (US EPA, 2002a).…”

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Intake fraction of nonreactive vehicle emissions in US urban areas

Marshall

Teoh

Nazaroff

2005

Atmospheric Environment

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“…According to Benarie [1980], the long-term average pollutant concentration in a region bordered by a box model with volume V , and pollution source, S in Bq/d, is given by…”

Section: A21 Transfer Rate Constantsmentioning

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Environmental health-risk assessment for tritium releases at the National Tritium Labeling Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

McKone¹,

Brand

Shan

1997

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“…These models include simple contingency tables, multiple linear and non-linear regression models, time series techniques (Benarie, 1980), artificial neural network approaches and fuzzy logic based methods (Wang, 2003). Linear regression model is a classical and easily applied method.…”

Section: Existing Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%