Remotely Sensed and Surface Measurement Derived Mass-Conserving Inversion of Daily High-Resolution NOx Emissions and Inferred Combustion Technologies in Energy Rich Northern China

This work presents a new model free inversion estimation framework using daily TROPOMI NO2 columns and observed fluxes from the continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) to quantify three years of daily-scale emissions of NOx at 0.05°×0.05° over Shanxi Province, a major world-wide energy producing and consuming region. The NOx emissions, day-to-day variability, and uncertainty on a climatological basis are computed to be 1.83, 1.01, and 1.06 Tg per year respectively. The highest emissions are concentrated in the lower Fen River valley, which accounts for 25 % of the area, 52 % of the NOx emissions, and 72 % of CEMS sources. Two major forcing factors (10th to 90th percentile) are horizontal transport distance per day (66–666 km) and lifetime of NOx (6.7–18.4 h). Both of these values are consistent with NOx emissions to both the surface layer and the free troposphere. The third forcing factor, the ratio of NOx / NO2, on a pixel-by-pixel basis is demonstrated to have a significant correlation with the combustion temperature and energy efficiency of large energy consuming sources. Specifically, thermal power plants, cement, and iron and steel companies have a relatively high NOx / NO2 ratio, while coking, industrial boilers, and aluminium oxide show relatively low ratio. Variance maximization is applied to daily TROPOMI NO2 columns identifies three significant modes, and successfully attributes them both spatially and temporally to (a) this work’s computed emissions, (b) remotely sensed TROPOMI UVAI, and (c) computed transport based on TROPOMI NO2.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Li, Xialou, Cohen, J. B., Qin, K., Geng, H., Wu, L., Wu, X., Yang, C., Zhang, Liqin, Zhang, Rui
Format:	comunicación de congreso biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	European Geosciences Union 2023-02
Subjects:	Continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS), Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/353129
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