Particulate Matter Dispersion (PM10), with interrelation of topographic and meteorological factors

Mining-industrial processes carried out by anthropic action, bring the generation of impacts to the environment. Between the impacts associated with mining is the involvement of the air quality produced by the release of atmospheric pollutants, being subject to study the behavior of the respirable fraction of particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM10) with respect to meteorological and topographical factors. The analyzed scenarios in the study involved daily and annual exposure times of PM10, in wich modeling with AERMOD View Software was made. The model was carried out in two topographic zones, a complex area, located in the municipality of Socha and a simple area located in the municipality of Sogamoso. It was used meteorological data type satellite, in format .SAM for modeled areas. Three types of emission sources were identified in the areas; considering that the disperse fixed emission sources predominate, followed by the mobile sources and point sources were found in low proportion. PM10 dispersion models made for the zones of simple and complex topography, gave as result that direction and the wind speed is conditioned by the type of zone. It allowed a free flow in the predominant direction in wind rose to the area of simple topography and a turbulent flow in the complex area. It was determined that the sources of emission of PM10 in both cases are local scale; They presented a critical radius of drag and deposition of particles of 200 m approximately.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6569
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12271
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ingenieria_sogamoso/article/view/5445; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12271
• Palabra clave: dispersion of pollutants; particulate matter; PM10; AERMOD; dispersión de contaminantes; material particulado; PM10; AERMOD
• License: Derechos de autor 2016 Ingeniería Investigación y Desarrollo