Impact of Fossil Fuel Combustion Emissions and Wildfires on Air Quality of Urban Environment in a Western Siberian Industrial City
- Authors: Khozyainova D.A.1, Popovicheva O.B.1, Chichaeva M.A.1, Kovach R.G.1, Slobodyan V.Y.2, Kasimov N.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Institute of Environmental Survey, Planning and Assessment
- Issue: Vol 60, No 5 (2024)
- Pages: 638-652
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0002-3515/article/view/282064
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0002351524050069
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/HXWNWG
- ID: 282064
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Abstract
Assessment of air quality in the industrial cities is of the high attention, especially in the regions sensitive to the ecological and climate changes. Study of atmospheric aerosol loading carried out in the Novy Urengoy city during summer- autumn of 2023. Particle number concentration, mass concentration of particle with a size less than 10 µm (PM10) and 2.5 µm (PM2.5) as well as black carbon (BC) measured by the mobile Aerosol Complex. The portion of fossil fuel combustion FF% and biomass burning (BB%) estimated using the aethalometer model. BC concentrations increased during pollution episodes recorded at the end of June (I) and July (II), in the beginning of August (III) and September (IV), doubled on average in comparison with the level of urban emissions. During the episode IV of maximum pollution ВС concentration and its impact to PM2.5 increased 4 and 5 times, respectively. At that time, portion of fossil fuel combustion FF% approached 96%. Cluster analyses of ВС dependence on the wind speed and direction revealed the sector of high concentration source. FF% indicated the direction of the emissions from the biggest industrial enterprise of Urengoy oil and gas condensate field. Wildfire plume identified by ВВ% from the south of Siberia.
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D. A. Khozyainova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow
O. B. Popovicheva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow
M. A. Chichaeva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow
R. G. Kovach
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow
V. Yu. Slobodyan
Institute of Environmental Survey, Planning and Assessment
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Bldg. 75d, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow
N. S. Kasimov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: olga.popovicheva@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow
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