Document formatted into pages; contains 115 pages. / Title from PDF of title page. / Original thesis was submitted in HTML and can be accessed at http://www.lib.usf.edu/EDT-db/theses/available/etd-10262001-162331/unrestricted/default.htm / Thesis (M.S.)--University of South Florida, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: The purposes of this research were to determine the efficacy of using the Ogawa]a passive sampling device (PSD) to measure ammonia and to identify significant ammonia sources adjacent to Hillsborough and Tampa Bay. Ninety-four samplers were deployed over a 180-km2 area for two weeks in October 2001. Within the area sampled were located suburbs, an urban center, major highways, port activities, fertilizer manufacturing, wastewater treatment, coal-combustion power plants, warehousing and dairy farming. The sampled locations were arranged in a triangular grid pattern spaced 1.5 km apart. The pattern was designed to locate circular hot spots with a minimum radius of 0.75 km. The minimum, maximum, mean, and median ammonia concentrations were 0.06, 15, 2.0, and 1.5 mg/m3, respectively, and the estimated precision was 16%. Hot spots identified from kriged concentration data coincided with inventoried ammonia sources. / ABSTRACT: The relative bias and precision of the PSD based on collocation with an annular denuder system were (plus or minus) 30 % and 20 %. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USF/oai:palmm.fcla.edu:AJL6120SEB |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Tate, Paul. |
| Publisher | University of South Florida |
| Source Sets | University of South Flordia |
| Detected Language | English |
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