Open-path FTIR absorption measurements at urban and industrial sites in Germany -- Two case studies
Book
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OSTI ID:197413
- Fachhochschle Duesseldorf (Germany)
Open-path FTIR absorption measurements have been performed at urban and industrial sites in Germany. The first direct intercomparison in Germany between open-path FTIR measurements and the official measurement network of the environmental state agency will be presented. An official station of the Environmental State Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia, equipped with standard monitoring systems, was placed at an urban site as part of the air pollution measurement network for continuous measurements of the state, so that the authors were able to intercompare their results with the data of the official network of the state. The first aim of the authors` measurements was to find out how well their results matched the official measurements of the state agency. The second aim was to find out the most important source of the high methane concentration. They made the measurements on two different days at that site with a temporal delay of about 2 weeks to enhance representativeness. For these measurements the spectrometer was placed near the station of the Environmental State Agency so that direct intercomparison of the two systems was possible. Down in a street the retroreflector was installed about 200 meters away from the spectrometer down in a street. In the street, where the authors made their measurements, there was only little traffic. However, a main street with heavier traffic was situated nearby, causing a high concentration of CO. The results of ammonia measurements in the complex atmosphere of a refinery plant will also be addressed.
- OSTI ID:
- 197413
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9405167--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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