Q1.

If coal consumption in a power plant is 3060 kg/day, what would be the SO2
emission rate (g/sec)? Coal contains 1% sulfur.

Q2. Typical coal burned in power plant has heat content 24 KJ/g and average
carbon content 62 percent, 130 gm of elemental sulphur per 106 KJ, 13 gm of
particulate emission per 106 KJ. Assume that plant requires 3 units of heat energy
to deliver 1 unit of electrical energy. What would be the emission of SO2,
Particulate and Carbon (in gm/kwhr)?
Q1. At a traffic corridor of Guwahati City, 4 types of vehicles
has been counted which crosses the road in 20 min. If the
road stretch is 600 m then calculate the CO emission from
traffic in g/sec. The emission factors and traffic counts are
given below:
Emission factor
Time Vehicle number
(g/km)
Two wheeler 850 1.48
Three wheeler 350 2.09
Passenger cars 450 1.30
Bus 350 3.97
Q2. In an air quality region, having length and width of 0.5 km and 0.3 km respectively, the
only source of air pollution is the vehicular traffic. The length of the area is perpendicular to
north and the only existing road in the area is aligned to 3150 to north. The table below shows
the traffic and meteorological conditions during observation:
a) Numbers of vehicles

Hours of day Types of vehicles

2-wheelers 3-wheelers Passengers car Heavy vehicles

Morning hours
10-11 am 5212 864 3065 227
11-12 pm 5434 964 3101 225
Evening hours
5-6 pm 5224 850 3064 254
6-7 pm 5434 963 2659 256
b) Emission details
c) Meteorology

Calculate the steady state CO concentrations in the area (grams/km3) and also, predict the
concentrations at 10 pm, 12 mid-night, and 2 am next day, assuming similar
meteorological conditions and no vehicles after 7 pm in the area. (Assume the background
concentrations as zero)
Q3. Consider the thermoelectric power plant of total capacity 915 MW with a load
factor (or annual capacity) of 72.5 percent and a plant efficiency of 40 percent.
Determine the amount of particulates, CO2 and SO2 if oil is the fuel source. Assume
80% of ash as particulates. The ultimate analysis and calorific value is as follows:

Moisture Ash Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen+Oxyg Sulphur Calorific Value

en

0.3% 0.04% 85.2% 11.3% 0.36% 2.8% 40.5 MJ/kg

Relation of air parcel temperature with pressure

Q.1 If an air parcel, initially at -200C at some level in the

atmosphere, is heated dry adiabatically in descending to the
1000 mb pressure level to +200C. what was the initial
pressure ?

(Assume, R/Cp = 0.288 for dry atmospheric air)

Q2. An moist air parcel with a mass of 1kg rises adiabatically
from sea level to an altitude of 3km. If the moisture change
within the parcel is 6g/kg, what is the temperature change of
the parcel during ascent? Latent heat of condensation= 2.5 x
106 J/kg.
Q3. Calculate the approximate mass of the atmosphere on
the MSL.
Q4. The thermoelectric power station of 915 MW capacity and a load factor of
72.5 percent uses natural gas as its fuel source and a plant efficiency of 40
percent. Determine the annual production of CO2, water vapour and NO2. The
natural gas parameters are as follows.

CO2 N2 CH4 Calorific

Value
1.4% 0.6% 98% 40
MJ/Kg
Note: There are no particulates or SO2 emissions.
Q5. There are 726 buses, 12694 cars, 35684 two wheelers in a town at the start of
2010. The annual growth rate of vehicles are -6%, 7.2% and 11.6% respectively.
The average daily trip distance of each vehicle in each category are 150 km, 45
km and 25 km respectively. If the emission/km of a certain pollutant are 0.40g,
0.15g and 0.03g for bus, cars and two wheelers respectively. If no vehicles are
purchased in 2014, calculate the total emission in 2014.
Q6. An automobile traveling 50 km per hour emits 0.1% CO from the
exhaust. If the exhaust rate is 80 m3 per minute, what is the CO emission in
grams per kilometer? Temperature = 25°C. Consider ideal atmospheric
conditions.
Q1. What will be the change in temperature of dry air parcel
adiabatically moving from sea level to a height of 1.3 km?
Q2. Determine the lapse rate for the following given temperature
profile and also state the atmospheric stability conditions at each
layer?

Height Temperature
Sea level, 0 m 27˚C
400 m 10 ˚C
647 m 17˚C
1200 m 4˚C
Q3. The ground-level wind velocity at 10 m elevation is 4
m/sec in a city. What would you estimate the velocity to be at
100 m elevation in slightly unstable atmosphere?
Q4. During a field monitoring program conducted in Guwahati,
the atmospheric lapse rate was constant up to 800 m. The
atmospheric temperature and pressure at ground level were
1020 mbar and 150C, respectively. A radio sound measurement
indicates the temperature and pressure at some elevation were
975 mbar and 11.50C, respectively. Assume hydrostatic
condition and determine:
(a) The elevation of the observation, and
(b) The atmospheric temperature gradient dT/dz in
Kelvin per meter