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CDB 3022 Environmental Chemical Engineering Exercise Chapter 4

This document contains 7 questions related to environmental chemical engineering: 1) Define acid rain and how it occurs through pollution from fossil fuels reacting in the atmosphere. 2) Explain why lake and land breezes occur due to temperature differences and how lake breezes can negatively impact pollution dispersion. 3) Determine the atmospheric stability for 6 temperature profiles by calculating the lapse rate and explaining the stability category.

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CDB 3022 Environmental Chemical Engineering Exercise Chapter 4

This document contains 7 questions related to environmental chemical engineering: 1) Define acid rain and how it occurs through pollution from fossil fuels reacting in the atmosphere. 2) Explain why lake and land breezes occur due to temperature differences and how lake breezes can negatively impact pollution dispersion. 3) Determine the atmospheric stability for 6 temperature profiles by calculating the lapse rate and explaining the stability category.

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CDB 3022 Environmental Chemical Engineering

Exercise Chapter 4

Question 1
Define the term acid rain and explain how it occurs.
Question 2
Explain why lake breezes and land breezes occur. How a lake breeze adversely affects the
dispersion of pollutants
Question 2
Determine the atmospheric stability for each of the following temperature profiles. Show all
works and explain choices.
Elevation , m
1.5
339

Temperature , 0C
-4.49
0.10

ii

12
279

28.05
19.67

iii

8
339

19.55
18.93

iv

2
318

-3.05
-6.21

10
202

6.0
3.09

vi

18
286

14.03
16.71

Question 4
Determine the effective height of a stack if the following data are given:
Physical stack is 230 m tall with 1.05 m inside diameter
Wind velocity is 3.50 m/s
Air temperature is 15 0C
Barometric pressure is 1000 milibars

Stack gas velocity is 9.44 m/s


Stack gas temperature is 159 0C
Question 5
Describe the formation of looping plume and sketch a diagram of Temperature vs Elevation to
illustrate the stability condition which leads to the formation of a looping plume.
Question 6
On a clear summer afternoon with a wind speed of 3.2 m/s, the particulate concentration was
found to be 1520 g/m3 at a point 2 km downwind and 0.5 km perpendicular to the plume
centerline from a coal-fired power plant. Given the following parameters and conditions,
determine the particulate emission rate of the power plant.

Stack parameters
Height = 75 m
Diameter = 1.5 m
Exit velocity = 12 m
Temperature = 322C

Atmospheric conditions
Pressure = 100 kPa
Temperature = 28C

Question 7
A coffee bean screening and handling operation emits 0.8 g/m3 of fine particulate matter. A
reverse-air baghouse is being proposed for controlling the particulate emissions. The gas
handling system has an exhaust flow rate of 4.5 m3/s. Data from manufacturer as follows:
Bag diameter = 25 cm
Bag length = 10 m
air:cloth = 0.010 m3/s.m2
Bag cleaning = 30%
i)
ii)

Estimate the number of bags required


Estimate the mass of particulate matter collected each day if the efficiency is 99%

Key to stability categories

Values of a,b,c d and f for calculating sy and sz

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