Integrated SOx Emission Trend Estimation for the Sustainability Transition Students K. Miller, C. Reid, J. Agan, J. Reynolds Instructor Rudolf B. Husar Washington University, St. Louis, MO Sustainable Air Quality - Class Project Report, May 2003 Presented at NARSTO Workshop on Innovative Methods for Emission-Inventory Development and Evaluation Austin, TX ; October 14-17, 2003
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Integrated SOx Emission Trend Estimation for the Sustainability Transition
Students K. Miller, C. Reid, J. Agan, J. Reynolds
InstructorRudolf B. Husar
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Sustainable Air Quality - Class Project Report, May 2003 Presented at
NARSTO Workshop on Innovative Methods forEmission-Inventory Development and Evaluation
Austin, TX ; October 14-17, 2003
Sustainable Development NAS: Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability
• SD is the process of reconciling society’s developmental needs with the environmental limits over the long term.
• During the ‘journey’, the pathways of a transition to sustainability have to be ‘navigated’ adaptively incorporating differing views on what should be developed, what should be sustained and over what time period.
• Human activities exert pressures, such as burning fossil fuels that alter the state of environment, such air quality. The impaired environmental state, elicits responses, such as regulations.
• Each can be measured using historical data and quantify the causality chain
SOX Emissions Drivers: Linear Causality ModelSOX Emissions Drivers: Linear Causality Model
The driver of SOX emissions is the population, modified by economic, energy and emission factors Emissions changes can be caused by any of the four key ‘drivers’
Energy, BTU Economy, $SOX
Sox = (Sox/Btu) x (Btu/GDP) x (GDP/P) x (Pop)
Persons, P
Economic VigorEnergy EfficiencyEmissions Factor
US SOX Emission Trend
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Causality of change?
Trend of Sox Change Drivers1940-2000
Upward drivers: Population & Economy Downward drivers: Energy Eff., Emiss. Factors
US was a leading source of mined sulfur in the world but S mining has diminished
The demand for industrial sulfur was met by the S recovery of from fuels and metals
Total S Mobilized and Recovered
• Most of the S mobilization is driven by fuels, particularly coal (10-15 Mtons/yr)• Mined elemental sulfur peaked around 1970 but became insignificant by 2000• Recovered sulfur, especially from petroleum refining, has increased dramatically since 1950• The overall flow of mobilized sulfur has increased steadily until about 1970 followed by a downturn
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Sulfur Flow through Fuels and Minerals
Mineral Mining Production Consumption
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Fuel Mining Refining Combustion
Minerals Flow for GoodsMetals, Pyrites, Frasch
Fuels Flow for EnergyCoal, Oil, Gas
Exp/Imp Proc
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Exp/Imp AirEx/Im Water
S as Pollution S as Goods
Man-made S drivers: (1) Minerals: mining, byproduct of metals; (2) Energy: coal, oil and gas
Within these sources, there is some recycling and recovery of sulfur
Un-recovered sulfur is then released to the air, water, and soil environment as pollution
Summary
• The changes of sulfur emissions are caused by a set of ‘drivers’ or ‘forces’:– Population and economy have been upward drivers– Energy efficiency and emission factors are downward drivers– Since the 1970s, Sox emissions have declined since downward drivers dominate
• The causality links are dynamic transfer matrices– To explain past (e.g. spatial) emission changes one needs to reconstruct the transfers
• The industrial sulfur demand (fertilizer) is met by S recovered from fuels and minerals
• For sulfurous pollution, we are well along the Sustainability Transition