INTRODUCTIONTOAIRPOLLUTIONENGINEERING

OPENBOOKEXAMINATION
Question 1: Which emits more SO2 per unit amount of electricity
produced: a coal-fired plant with 85% efficient S02 scrubbers or an oilfired plant with no scrubber? The coal has a heat content of 11,000
Btu/lb and contains 2.8% sulfur, and that the oil has a heat content of
6.0 (10)6 Btu/barrel (1 barrel= 42 gallons) and contains 0.85% sulfur.
Assume the oil has a specific gravity of 0.91.
Do the above plants meet New Source Performance Standards? State
your assumptions.

Question 2: Determine the centerline, ground-level concentration of

SO2 1 km and 5 km downwind from a 400-megawatt power plant
burning 8000 tons of 1.5% sulfur coal per day. The effective stack
height is 200 m on a clear, sunny day. The atmospheric stability was
recorded using sigma theta. The value of sigma theta was 10 degree.
The wind recorded on the same day was 3 m/sec at 10 m above the
ground. The dispersion coefficients at these distances are:
y z
X
(m) (m)
(km)
1
140 125
5
540 500
Question3(a):AcompanyhasboughtaScrubbersystemin1995for$60,000.00.The
estimatedlifeofthemachineisfiveyears,afterwhichithassalvagevalueof$100.00.
Findtheannualdepreciationbythestraightlinemethod.

Question 3(b) Calculate the maximum mixing height from the

following early morning temperature data given below:
Height(m)

200

300

400

500

600

Temperature(oC)

10.0

11.5

16.2

18.0

15.2

15.3

The maximum surface temperature for the day was 18.5 oC.

Question 4: The rate of emission of SO2 from the stack of a power

plant is 180 gm/sec. The stack height is 58 m. Calculate the effective
stack height on a sunny September day when the wind velocity is 6
m/sec. Use Class C stability. The effluents are being released at 9 m/s
and at a temperature of 300oK. The atmospheric temperature is 292oK.
The stack diameter is 0.8 m.

Question 5: A cyclone has been designed with an inlet width of 10 cm and an inlet
height of 6 cm. The height of the main upper cylinder is 16 cm and the height of the
lower cone is 16 cm. The inlet gas velocity is 16 m/s and the particle density is 1.6 gm/cc.
The working temperature of the process is 400 o K. Estimate the particle size that will be
collected with 50 percent collection efficiency.