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Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25835 Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution Kornelius, Gerrit tulela@gmail.com Neshuku, Martha Nyambali Air dispersion modeling Fugitive emissions Open cast mining Particulate matter (PM) UCTD Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2012. The performance of the AERMOD and ADMS dispersion models was tested using PM10 (thoracic dust) emissions from Rössing Uranium Mine open pit in Namibia. The performance of the two models was evaluated against the observations and also against each other using various statistical measures. The models were tested under different case scenarios (cases explained in chapter 4) with the aim of evaluating their performances as well as their inter model variability. The study was undertaken from the 13 July 2009 – 14 August 2009. The results from the study showed that the performance of ADMS was superior to that of AERMOD. In general, the performance of AERMOD was very poor and simulated extremely high concentration values. AERMOD performed even more poorly during calm conditions. ADMS performance was superior to AERMOD as was evident from the values of various performance statistical measures and a conclusion reached was that ADMS is likely to be a better model to use in cases where prolonged calm conditions are experienced. Copyright Chemical Engineering unrestricted 2013-09-07T00:51:20Z 2012-06-26 2013-09-07T00:51:20Z 2012-04-17 2012-06-26 2012-06-25 Dissertation Neshuku, MN 2012, Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25835 > E12/4/421/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25835 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06252012-115652/ © 2012, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Air dispersion modeling Fugitive emissions Open cast mining Particulate matter (PM) UCTD Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title | Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title_full | Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title_fullStr | Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title_short | Comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD and ADMS) for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| title_sort | comparison of the performance of two atmospheric dispersion models aermod and adms for open pit mining sources of air pollution |
| topic | Air dispersion modeling Fugitive emissions Open cast mining Particulate matter (PM) UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25835 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06252012-115652/ |