ABSTRACT
Being a densely populated and heavily industrialized harbor, the emissions of air pollutants in the Kaohsiung area are very huge. There is substantial amount of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) present in the ambient air. Furthermore, relative high temperature and strong sunlight tend to transform these VOCs to oznone, causing high ozone episodes.
This study aimed to determine the VOCs source profiles (or fingerprints) from 20 stationary sources, 10 from each of Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County. These include flue gas emission from incineration plants, sewage treatment plants, petroleum plants, and others. The samples was collected using a stainless-steel thermal desorption tube, then analyzed a Hewlett-Packard 58900-II gas chromatograph, fitted with a flame ionization detector and desk-top personel computer. The OFP (ozone formation potential) of VOCs from individual sources were evaluated based on MIR (maximum incremental reactivities).
The results show that the speciations of VOCs depend on the raw material and air pollution control equipments used in the processes. The major VOCs in the petro-chemical industries are benzene, toluene, xylene, and 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene. The major VOCs in the PVC processes and surface-painting industries are 2-methylbutane, 2-methylpentane, and ethylbenzene. The major VOCs in the sewage treatment plants are ethylene, hexane, benzene, toluene, and m-xylene.
The highest average reaction of the samples is 27.94 g-O3/g-VOCs from intermediary process, the next are from lubrication oil distillation tower, TPE process, ABS process, and maleic anhydride process, ranging from 3 ~ 5 g-O3/g-VOCs. Thus, the reactivity of aromatic-related process is highest, the next are aldehydes - and ketones -related processes.
Keywords: Volatile Organic Compounds, Fingerprints, Ozone Formation Potential
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626102-155716 |
| Date | 26 June 2002 |
| Creators | Wu, Li-Yen |
| Contributors | Kang-Shin Chen, Ming-Shean Chou, Chi-Tsan Lin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626102-155716 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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