Quantifying the Air Pollution Exposure Consequences of - Houston ...

Tables
Table 1. Selected 2000 emission inventory data (tons per day, annual average) for
California ..................................................................................................................3
Table 2. Typical characteristics of the central station and distributed generation (DG)
paradigms of electricity generation relevant to air quality and inhalation
exposure.. .................................................................................................................6
Table 3. Efficiencies and emissions factors of selected distributed generation
technologies .............................................................................................................7
Table 4. Summary of the “existing units” category of cases ............................................15
Table 5. Summary of the hypothetical DG category of cases...........................................17
Table 6. Characteristics relevant to air quality for the 25 central station existing units in
1999........................................................................................................................21
Table 7. Characteristics relevant to air quality for the six DG (> 1 MW) existing units in
1999........................................................................................................................24
Table 8. Characteristics relevant to air quality for the six cogeneration existing units in
1999........................................................................................................................25
Table 9. Characteristics of the small-scale, hypothetical DG technologies......................28
Table 10. Dispersion parameters for urban point sources emitting within the urban
canopy....................................................................................................................36
Table 11. Annual prevalence of calms for each surface meteorological station...............46
Table 12. Modeling designations, emissions, emission factors and stack data for the 25
central station existing units in 1999 .....................................................................51
Table 13. Modeling designations, emissions, emission factors and stack data for the six
DG (> 1 MW) existing units in 1999.....................................................................54
Table 14. Modeling designations, emissions, emission factors and stack data for the six
cogeneration existing units in 1999 .......................................................................55
Table 15. Modeling designations for the eleven city hall locations of hypothetical DG (<
1 MW) cases ..........................................................................................................56
Table 16. Modeling designations, emission factors and stack data for small-scale,
hypothetical DG (< 1 MW) technologies ..............................................................57
Table 17. Power law exponents (p) for wind speed adjustment in urban and rural areas.60
Table 18. Total daytime rate constant for HCHO decay considering reaction with the
hydroxyl radical (OH) and photolysis....................................................................72
Table 19. Comparison of present results with other published values of intake fraction for
large point sources (mainly power plants).............................................................97
Table 20. Brief description of the models and key parameter values of each of the intake
fraction studies cited in Table 19...........................................................................98
Table 21. Summary of results for central station existing units......................................114
Table 22. Summary of results for the cogeneration and DG (> 1 MW) existing units...115
Table 23. Summary of results for microturbines co-located at the sites of the existing
central stations .....................................................................................................116
Table 24. Summary of results for microturbines co-located at the sites of the existing
cogeneration and DG (> 1 MW) plants ...............................................................117
vii