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A Study on the Diffusion of Atmospheric Pollutants over Taegu (대구상공에서의 대기 오염 물질 확산에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Il-Hui;Min, Gyeong-Deok;Park, Dong-Jae
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.241-252
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    • 1994
  • Meteorological parameters In the atmospheric boundary layer and the vertical and horizontal dispersion parameters were determined by analyzing the data obtained by the special upper-air observations of one clear day for each season from October 1991 to August 1992. The concentration of the aklospheric pollutants over Taegu was analyzed by using the application of the Gaussian diffusion model. In the diurnal variation of diffusion of atmospheric pollutants, vertical diffusion due to turbulence is active in daytime while horizontal diffusion due to wind is active in nighttime. The mean concentration of pollutants in the side of downwind is higher during the daytime than the nighttime. Thus, the height of the mixed-layer at the nighttime considered as the most important parameter of the mean concentration of pollutants. In the seasonal variation of diffusion of atmospheric pollutants, vertical diffusion due to strong solar radiation is active in summer case day, and horizontal diffusion due to strong wind is active in winter case day. In winter case day, the mean concentration of pollutants in the side of downwind is maximum in the daytime. However, in summer case day, that is maximum in the nighttime.

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Numerical Simulation of Flow Field and Air Pollutatnts Concentration in Kwangyang Bay (광양만권의 유동장 및 대기오염농도예측)

  • 정용현
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.397-402
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    • 2000
  • Numerical simulation model using nesting method and considering topographic features was developed to predict atmospheric environments atmospheric flow temperature and diffusion of air pollutants in Kwangyang bay where having complex areas of point sources Korea. In addition developed simulation model was used tracing of spreading range of pollutants when a gas leaks suddenly from Yeo-cheon industrial complex. by comparing the measured and calculated data on atmospheric flow temperature and diffusion of air pollutants the results showed that this model can be well applied and complicated topography affected the diffusion of air pollutants.

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Numerical Models for Atmospheric Diffusion Problems by Pseudospectral Method (1) - Atmospheric Diffusion Equations and Spectral Model - (의사스펙트로법에 의한 대기확산형상의 수치모델(1) - 대기확산방정식과 스펙트로모델 -)

  • 김선태;장영기
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 1991
  • In recent years spectral methods have been found to be a powerful tool for the numerical solution of hynamic differential equations. The main attraction of spectral method is accuracy even though it is generally difficult to implement and solve the complex problems using spectral method. We introduced diffusion equations describing the state of air pollution and solved by pseutospectral method in dimensionless form. The results were compared with both those of other numerical methods and analytical solutions. Comparing with finite difference method and finite element method, spectral method shows the highest accuracy for one dimension problem in this study. Also, the results of two dimensional diffusion problems show good agreement with analytical solutions.

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Numerical Simulation for Diffusion and Movement of Air Pollutants in Atmospheric Flow Coastal Urban Region (연안도시지역의 대기유동장에서 대기오염물질의 확산과 이동에 관한 수치모의)

  • 이화운;김유근
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.437-449
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    • 1997
  • To predict diffusion and movement of k pollutants In coastal urban region a numerical simulation shouts be consider atmospheric flow field with land-sea breeze, mountain-valley wand and urban effects. In this study we used Lagrangian [article dispersion method In the atmospheric flow field of Pusan coastal region to depict diffusion and movement of the Pollutants emoted from particular sources and employed two grid system, one for large scale calculating region with the coarse mesh grid (CMG) and the other for the small region with the One mesh 914 (FMG). It was found that the dispersion pattern of the pollutants followed local circulation system in coastal urban area and wale air pollutants exhausted from Sasang moved Into Baekyang and Jang moutain, air pollutants from Janglim moved into Hwameong-dong region.

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A Study on a Safety System for Preventing Atmospheric Diffusion of Hazardous and Noxious Chemicals in Dike (방유벽 내 위험·유해화학물질 대기 확산 방지를 위한 안전시스템 연구)

  • Lee, Deok-Jae;Song, Chang-Geun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2019
  • Behind the growth of the chemical industry which is a cornerstone of the Korean economy, dozens of hazardous and noxious chemical accidents occur every year, resulting in enormous casualties and environmental damages. Many cases among chemical accidents are caused by the carelessness of workers in handling facilities such as hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid, and the aging of handling facilities. In order to mitigate the damage by such chemical accidents, a safety system for preventing atmospheric diffusion of hazardous and xoxious chemicals in dike was proposed. The atmospheric diffusion prevention safety system consists of leak detection phase, alarm and measurement phase, suppression and blocking phase. Through the proposed the atmospheric diffusion prevention safety system, the need for 2nd chemical accident prevention such as atmospheric diffusion in dike can be posed.

The Role of Fronts on the Vertical Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants I: 2D frontal model experiment (대기오염물질의 연직 수송에 미치는 전선의 역할 I: 2차원 전선모델을 이용한 수송 실험)

  • Nam, Jae-Cheol;Thorpe, Alan
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2004
  • It is well known that convections and fronts are the most effective weather systems for the vertical transport of pollutants. I used a two dimensional front model in order to investigate the mechanism of the vertical transport of atmospheric pollutants between planetary boundary layer(PBL) and free atmosphere by fronts. The main dynamic processes which contribute the vertical transport of pollutants are advection and diffusion. The transported amount of pollutant from the boundary layer to the free atmosphere increases dramatically during the developing stage of the front. 46% of pollutants are transported vertically within 12 hour and 54% are transported within 24 hour. In the meantime, compared to the total amount of pollutants transported by both advection and diffusion, about 25% (30%) less pollutants are transported when only advection (diffusion) process in included in the model. The most important mechanism for the vertical transport is vertical advection, while the vertical diffusion process plays an important role in the redistribution of pollutants in the PBL.

Realtime Air Diffusion Prediction System

  • Kim Youngtae;Kim Tae KooK;Oh Jai-Ho
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.88-90
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    • 2003
  • We implement Realtime Air Diffusion Prediction System which is designed for air diffusion simulations with four-dimensional data assimilation. For realtime running, we parallelize the system using MPI (Message Passing Interface) on distributed-memory parallel computers and build a cluster computer which links high-performance PCs with high-speed interconnection networks. We use 162­CPU nodes and a Myrinet network for the cluster

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A Comparative Study of k-ε Algebraic Stress Model and Mellor-Yamada Model Applied to Atmospheric Dispersion Simulation Using Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (라그랑지 입자 모델을 이용한 k-ε Algebraic Stress Model과 Mellor-Yamada Model의 비교 연구)

  • 김상백;오성남
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 2004
  • The $textsc{k}$-$\varepsilon$ algebraic stress model (KEASM) was applied to atmospheric dispersion simulation using the Lagrangian particle dispersion model and was compared with the most popular turbulence closure model in the field of atmospheric simulation, the Mellor-Yamada (MY) model. KEASM has been rarely applied to atmospheric simulation, but it includes the pressure redistribution effect of buoyancy due to heat and momentum fluxes. On the other hand, such effect is excluded from MY model. In the simulation study, the difference in the two turbulence models was reflected to both the turbulent velocity and the Lagrangian time scale. There was little difference in the vertical diffusion coefficient $\sigma$$_{z}$. However, the horizontal diffusion coefficient or calculated by KEASM was larger than that by MY model, coincided with the Pasquill-Gifford (PG) chart. The applicability of KEASM to atmospheric simulations was demonstrated by the simulations.s.

Numerical Model for Stack Gas Diffusion in Terrain Containing Buildings - Application of Numerical Model to a Cubical Building and a Ridge Terrain -

  • Sada, Koichi;Michioka, Takenobu;Ichikawa, Yoichi
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2008
  • A numerical simulation method has been developed to predict atmospheric flow and stack gas diffusion using a calculation domain of several km around a stack under complex terrain conditions containing buildings. The turbulence closure technique using a modified k-$\varepsilon$-type model under a non hydrostatic assumption was used for the flow calculation, and some of the calculation grids near the ground were treated as buildings using a terrain-following coordinate system. Stack gas diffusion was predicted using the Lagrangian particle model, that is, the stack gas was represented by the trajectories of released particles. The numerical model was applied separately to the flow and stack gas diffusion around a cubical building and to a two-dimensional ridge in this study, before being applied to an actual terrain containing buildings in our next study. The calculated flow and stack gas diffusion results were compared with those obtained by wind tunnel experiments, and the features of flow and stack gas diffusion, such as the increase in turbulent kinetic energy and the plume spreads of the stack gas behind the building and ridge, were reproduced by both calculations and wind tunnel experiments. Furthermore, the calculated profiles of the mean velocity, turbulent kinetic energy and concentration of the stack gas around the cubical building and the ridge showed good agreement with those of wind tunnel experiments.

Addition Effect of the Deposition and Buoyancy Terms in Modeling Turbulence Diffusion of Hazardous Air Pollutants (유해 대기오염물질의 난류확산 수치모의에서 침적한과 부력항 추가에 따른 효과)

  • Won, Gyeong-Mee;Lee, Hwa-Woon;Ji, Hyo-Eun;Kim, Cheol-Hee;Song, Chang-Keun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2006
  • Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) are characterized by being relatively heavier and denser than that of ambient air due to the various reasons such as higher molecular weight, low temperature and other complicated chemical transformations (Witlox, 1994). In an effort to investigate transport and diffusion from instantaneous emission of heavy gas, Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (LPDM) coupled with the RAMS output was employed. Both deposition process and buoyancy term were added on the atmospheric diffusion equations of LPDM, and the locations and concentrations of dense gas particle released from instantaneous single point source (emitting initially for 10 minutes only) were analyzed. The result overall shows that adding deposition process and buoyancy terms on the diffusion equation of LPDM has very small but detectable effect on the vertical and horizontal distribution of Lagrangian particles that especially transported for a fairly long traveling time. Also the slumping of dense gas can be found to be ignored horizontally compared to the advection by the horizontal wind suggesting that it was essential to couple the Lagrangian particle dispersion model coupled with the RAMS model in order to explain the dispersion of HAPs more accurately. However, during the initial time of instantaneous emission, buoyancy term play an important role on the vertical locations of dense particles for near surface atmosphere and around source area, indicating the importance of densities of HAPs in the beginning stage or short duration for the risk assessment of HAPs or management of heavy vapors during the explosive accidents.