Recent Developments in Air Quality Modeling Techniques for studying Air Toxics in the Houston-Galveston Area Prof. Daewon W. Byun Dr. Soontae Kim, Ms. Violeta Coarfa Dr. Peter Percell University of Houston Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies Dr Graciela Lubertino, Houston Galveston Area Council Jason Ching, U.S. EPA Workshop for Air Toxics and Health Effects October 17-18, 2005 University of Houston http://www.imaqs.uh.edu
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Recent Developments in Air Quality Modeling Techniques for studying Air Toxics in the Houston-Galveston Area
Prof. Daewon W. ByunDr. Soontae Kim, Ms. Violeta Coarfa
Dr. Peter PercellUniversity of Houston
Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies
Dr Graciela Lubertino,Houston Galveston Area Council
Jason Ching,U.S. EPA
Workshop for Air Toxics and Health Effects
October 17-18, 2005 University of Houston
http://www.imaqs.uh.edu
Why modeling air toxics?Why modeling air toxics? To better understand their impacts on human To better understand their impacts on human
health and air qualityhealth and air quality To protect public health by limiting their emissions To protect public health by limiting their emissions
from man-made sourcesfrom man-made sources To help communities prepare to better respond in To help communities prepare to better respond in
case of chemical spills of such substancescase of chemical spills of such substances
Air toxics assessment activities includeAir toxics assessment activities include- assessment of emissions: monitoring and modeling - assessment of emissions: monitoring and modeling
of air qualityof air quality- programs for reducing exposure and emissions of - programs for reducing exposure and emissions of
pollutants;pollutants;- development and implementation of control - development and implementation of control
strategies of emissions; strategies of emissions; - emergency response in case of serious events.- emergency response in case of serious events.
Fate-Transport ModelingBased on First Principles”
Linking Air Quality and Exposure Modeling
Estimate emissions
Obtain concentrations of chemical in the medium
at distance of interest
Determine exposure of the population
of interest
Calculate the risk ofinjury associated with
that exposure
Ching, 2005 presentation
For neighborhood scale modeling:
Method 1: Combine CMAQ with ASPEN (following EPA’s Philadelphia Study)
Key Issue: How to improve Key Issue: How to improve Air Toxics Emissions Air Toxics Emissions
InventoriesInventories Air toxics Emissions Processing MethodAir toxics Emissions Processing Method Separate processing: of toxics species that Separate processing: of toxics species that
do not get involved in the main chemistry do not get involved in the main chemistry (i.e. CMAQ/HAPS)(i.e. CMAQ/HAPS)
Combined processing of toxics with other Combined processing of toxics with other photochemical (O3) and PM model species photochemical (O3) and PM model species with full interaction (i.e. extended SAPRC) with full interaction (i.e. extended SAPRC) CMAQ/Air-ToxicsCMAQ/Air-Toxics
Which Emissions Inventory?Which Emissions Inventory? Which Model Species?Which Model Species? How to process??How to process??
Simulation results were compared with the Simulation results were compared with the observationsobservations
Emissions for toluene and ethylbenzeneEmissions for toluene and ethylbenzene
Air Toxics Emissions
August 25, 200018:00 CDT
Point Area Non-road On-road
All Sources All Sources
Point Area Non-road On-road
NEI99 withNEI99 withSMOKE2.1SMOKE2.1ResultResult
CMAQ/AT 4.4 results for aromaticsCMAQ/AT 4.4 results for aromatics
August 25, 2000 @ 1 pm GMT and 9 pm GMT Air Concentrations
August 25, 200016:00 CDT
August 25, 200008:00 CDT
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TEIb4a+NEI99 gives a better agreement between the TEIb4a+NEI99 gives a better agreement between the simulation results and Clinton observational data for simulation results and Clinton observational data for benzenebenzene
Some success & some failures:But modeling advances are very promising if and only if we can improve emissions inventories…
Additional Parameters needed for Additional Parameters needed for Air Toxic CalculationsAir Toxic Calculations
GAS AROMATIC%: GAS AROMATIC%: aromatic content of gasoline on a aromatic content of gasoline on a percentage of total volume basispercentage of total volume basis
GAS OLEFIN%: GAS OLEFIN%: olefin content of gasoline on a percentage of olefin content of gasoline on a percentage of total volume basistotal volume basis
GAS BENZENE%: GAS BENZENE%: benzene content of gasoline on a benzene content of gasoline on a percentage of total volume basispercentage of total volume basis
E200: E200: Percentage of vapor a given gasoline produces at 200°FPercentage of vapor a given gasoline produces at 200°F E300: E300: percentage of vapor a given gasoline produces at 300°Fpercentage of vapor a given gasoline produces at 300°F OXYGENATE: OXYGENATE: oxygenate type and content of gasoline on a oxygenate type and content of gasoline on a
percentage of total volume basis. There are four oxygenate percentage of total volume basis. There are four oxygenate types in the model: MTBE, ETBE, ETOH, TAMEtypes in the model: MTBE, ETBE, ETOH, TAME
Houston Road Houston Road NetworkNetwork
What are required to estimatemobile source air toxics emissions?
Example of Link-based Example of Link-based EmissionsEmissions VOC emissions from Brazoria CountyVOC emissions from Brazoria County
Example of Link-based Example of Link-based EmissionsEmissions
BenzeneBenzene TolueneToluene
XyleneXylene StyreneStyrene
Example of Link-based Example of Link-based EmissionsEmissions
BenzeneBenzene
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Further Processing of Further Processing of air toxics emissions air toxics emissions
with SMOKE for with SMOKE for CMAQ/AT modelingCMAQ/AT modeling
Link-to-griddedemissions
Input data EI Processing for AQMs
Temporalprofiles
SMOKEAllocating each link emissions to the covering cells
Preparing MOBILE6 emission / vehicle types for temporal allocation
Link-based MOBILE6output
Hourly Hourly emissionsemissions
Gridded MOBILE6emissions
Diurnal temporal x-ref and profile
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Point Source VOC Emissions in
Houston-Galeston
Static Adaptive Fine-mesh Eulerian (SAFE) Grid
Point source emissions inventory Point source emissions inventory differencesdifferences
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from Point Sourcesfrom Point SourcesTCEQ PSDB 2000 NEI99 HAP
Differences in 1,3-Butadiene Differences in 1,3-Butadiene emissions emissions
from Point Sourcesfrom Point SourcesTCEQ PSDB 2000 NEI99 HAP
Processing of EI for speciated Processing of EI for speciated air toxics modeling requires air toxics modeling requires
speciation profilespeciation profile
SAPRC99SAPRC99 0005 TOG ALK1 0005 TOG ALK1 0.00083139342 1 0.0250.00083139342 1 0.025 0005 TOG ALK2 0005 TOG ALK2 0.00030721966 1 0.0080.00030721966 1 0.008 0005 TOG ARO1 0005 TOG ARO1 0.00007297401 1 0.010.00007297401 1 0.01 0005 TOG CH4 0005 TOG CH4 0.05162094763 1 0.8280.05162094763 1 0.828 0005 TOG ETHENE0005 TOG ETHENE 0.00417112299 1 0.1170.00417112299 1 0.117 0005 TOG OLE1 0005 TOG OLE1 0.00007129278 1 0.0030.00007129278 1 0.003
SAPRC ExtendedSAPRC Extended 0005 TOG CH4 0005 TOG CH4 0.90174382925 17.4718304 0.90174382925 17.4718304 0.82800000.8280000 0005 TOG ALK1 0005 TOG ALK1 0.01452596486 17.4718304 0.01452596486 17.4718304 0.02500000.0250000 0005 TOG ALK2 0005 TOG ALK2 0.00536810188 17.47183040.00536810188 17.4718304 0.0080000 0.0080000 0005 TOG ETHE 0005 TOG ETHE 0.07286676019 17.47183040.07286676019 17.4718304 0.1170000 0.1170000 0005 TOG OLE1 0005 TOG OLE1 0.00124558562 17.47183040.00124558562 17.4718304 0.0030000 0.0030000 0005 TOG BENZ 0005 TOG BENZ 0.00424974738 17.4718304 0.00424974738 17.4718304 0.01900000.0190000
CMAQ/AT withExtended Aromatic Chemistry Mechanism
Current Developments in Air Toxics Current Developments in Air Toxics ModelingModeling
at IMAQS, University of Houstonat IMAQS, University of Houston An Extended Chemical Mechanism of the An Extended Chemical Mechanism of the
EPA’s CMAQ for Air Toxics StudiesEPA’s CMAQ for Air Toxics Studies ((PosterPoster) )
Problem of popular chemical mechanisms: many chemical species are lumped; cannot simulated the behavior of individual compounds important in the atmospheric chemical processes and/or with serious impact on the human health and surroundings;
Solution: find methods to implement species of interest in the chemical mechanisms employed by the photochemical models - SAPRC99/extended (SAPRC99/extended (CMAQ/ATCMAQ/AT))
Suitable for studying Suitable for studying acute health effectsacute health effects and and verifying verifying auto GC and canister measurementsauto GC and canister measurementshttp://www.imaqs.uh.edu
Current Developments in Air Toxics Current Developments in Air Toxics ModelingModeling
at IMAQS, University of Houstonat IMAQS, University of Houston A Transport Model for the Air Toxics StudiesA Transport Model for the Air Toxics Studies
((PosterPoster)) Long-term simulations (several months, yearly) are preferred to
better analyze and understand the physical and chemical behavior of toxic pollutants
Health effect studies need long-term simulations for a proper correlation between pollutant concentration and various health conditions; need a faster model than CMAQ/Air-Toxics;
IMAQS developed an engineering version of CMAQ/Air-Toxics, which can simulates seasonal and annual simulations (CMAQ/HAPS)
Suitable for studying chronic health effects of air toxics
New method for air quality modeling -- New method for air quality modeling -- under under developmentdevelopment An Eulerian-Lagrangian Hybrid Modeling Method, Trajectory An Eulerian-Lagrangian Hybrid Modeling Method, Trajectory
Adaptive Grid (TAG) underdevelopment (Adaptive Grid (TAG) underdevelopment (CMAQ/TAGCMAQ/TAG)) Can handle multiscale air quality issues at reasonable Can handle multiscale air quality issues at reasonable
computational cost with high accuracycomputational cost with high accuracyhttp://www.imaqs.uh.edu
Lagrangian packets to represent Lagrangian packets to represent movement of pollutants, but in movement of pollutants, but in