Assignment

Question: During a nuclear power plant accident 100 curies/sec of Xenon-133 was
released for about an hour. Compute the ground level concentrations at 1000 m, 5000
m, 10000 m, and 2000 m for an effective source height of 50m. The atmospheric stability
during the accident period was D and the average wind speed at 10 m was recorded at 6
m/s. Use the following expressions for computing sy and sz.

 sy  = 0.14 x0.85

  sz = 0.73 x0.55 , 

where x is the downwind distance.

Solution:

1) Deacon power law for calculating wind speed at stack height 

u = u1 * (z/z1)p 

Where,

u = desired but unknown wind speed,  (us)

u1 = wind speed at known height, (u10)

z = height where wind speed is unknown, hs

z1 = height where wind speed is known, 10m

p = exponent from table 3-3 in the text = 0.15

Therefore, u =  u1 * (z/z1)p  = 6 * (50/10)0.15  = 7.6m/sec

2) Calculate Concentration C

Calculate dispersion co-efficients

 sy  = 0.14 x0.85

  sz = 0.73 x0.55 , 

Concentration, C for location (x, y, z) = (x, 0, 0)           

simplify for C(x,0,0) and add equations for coefficient of dispersion

where                                                                                                              

                                                Q         =          emission rate         curies/s 

                                                u          =          wind speed (at release elevation)                   

m/s       

                                                x          =          distance from source            m         

x y z Q   curies/s u  m sy   m sz  m C  curies/m3

1000 0 0 100 7.6 50 33 1.77E-07
2000 0 0 100 7.6 90 48 1.4E-06
5000 0 0 100 7.6 195 79 5.18E-06
10000 0 0 100 7.6 352 116 6.88E-06

Question: A stack emitting 80 g/s of NO has an effective stack height of 100 m. The
windspeed is 4 m/s at 10m, and it is a clear summer day with the sun nearly overhead.
Estimate the ground level NO concentration
a) Directly downwind at a distance of 2km. (2 marks)
b) At the point downwind where NO is a maximum. (2 marks)
c) At a point located 2km downwind and 0.1 km off the downwind axis. (2 marks)
Solution: H= 100 m, uH= 4m/s, ua= 3 m/s Q= 80g/s, clear summer day so Class B:
First, find the windspeed at the effective stack height using equation and table:
0.15
H  100 
u H  u a    4m / s    5.65m / s
 Za   10 

a. At 2km σ y =290 m, σ z=234 m

Q  H2 
C ( x, 0)  exp   2 
 u y z  2 z 
80  106  g / s  1002 
C exp   2 
 61 g / m3
 5.65m / s  234  2  234 

b. At the maximum point, 0.7 km

 CuH  5
  1.5  10 / m
2

 Q  max
Q  Cu H  80 106  g / s  1.5  105 
Cmax     212 g / m
3
   2
uH  Q  max 5.65m / s  m 
c. At x= 2 km, y= 0.1 km:
Q  H2    y2 
C  x, y   exp   2 
exp  2 
 u y z 
 2 z   2 y 
 1002 
61 g / m3  exp  2 
 57  g / m3
 2  290 
=