Industrial Pollution Control
Prof. B. C. Meikap
ASSIGNMENT
( Last Date to submit by email to TA : 31-08-2025)
1). A stack in an urban area is emitting 80 g/s of NOx. It has an effective stack height of 200 m the wind speed is 4 m/s
at 10 m. It is a clear summer day with the sun nearly overhead. Estimate the ground level concentration at
a) 2 km downwind on the centreline and
b) 2 km downwind, 100 m off the centreline.
2) An industrial boiler is burning at 12 tons of 2.5% sulphur coal/hr with an emission rate of 151 g/s. the following exist:
H=220m, u=2 m/s, y=0. It is one hour before sunrise and the sky is clear. Find the downwind ground level SO 2
concentration at x= 2 km, y= 0, z= 0.
3) A 500MW thermal power plant burns 18000 tons of coal per day containing 0.58% sulphur. The plant emits the flue
gasses into the atmosphere through a stack of inside diameter of 1.5 m and height of 60m. the velocity and the
temperature of the plume at the exit are 5m/s and 1550C respectively. The ambient air temperature is 28 C and the wind
speed at the stack altitude is 7m/s. the barometric pressure is 825 mbar at the top of the stack. Assume a moderately
stable plume.
a) calculate the effective height of stack.
b) what is the downwind SO2 concentration in the plume centreline at a distance of 2 km in the day time?
c) calculate the maximum concentration of SO2 along the centreline of the plume and at what downwind distance
it will occur.
d) Show a concentration profile of SO2 upto 10km downwind distance and 800m along the crosswind distance.
4) A stack gas from a cement clinker emits dusts at the rate of 115.0 gm/s at a temperature of 175 OC, velocity 8 m/s
and barometric pressure of 977 millibars. A slightly unstable plume is found at the exit of the chimney. The ambient air
temperature is 30 OC and wind velocity is 4 m/s. A chimney of 96 cm diameter may be used for dispersion. Under slightly
unstable conditions Calculate:
a) Effective stack height
b) The concentration of dust at a distance of 6 km downwind along the central line of the plume.
c) Maximum ground level concentration of dust and at which it will occur.
5) A coal burning plant burns 24000 tons of coal/day. The coal has a Sulphur content of 1.7%. The physical stack height,
h is 200 ft, inside diameter of stack at exit is 0.8m, stack gas exit velocity is 18.3m/s which leaves the chimney at a
temperature of 1400C. Ambient air temperature is 280C. The atmospheric pressure is 1000mbar and prevailing wind
speed is 4.5m/s.
a) Calculate the effective stack height.
b)What is the maximum concentration of SO2 at the ground level? Use moderately unstable condition of the plume.
c) Calculate the concentration of SO2 at a distance of 5km away from the plant. Also show the concentration profile of
SO2upto 3km from the chimney.
6). A 100 MW power plant burns 10000 tons of 1.5% S containing coal/day. The flue gases are emitted into the
atmosphere through a stack of height 200m and the diameter of stack at the plume exit is 0.5 m. The velocity and
temperature of the plume is 10m/s and 1200C respectively at the exit. What is the downwind concentration of SO2 in the
plume central line at a distance of 5km for class D plume (neutral)? Assume the ambient temperature is 15 0C and wind
velocity is 6m/s.
7) SO2 is emitted through a stack 50m height and 2m diameter at the exit at a temperature of 120 OC, with a velocity of
10 m/s .the SO2 emission rate is 200g/s. Show how the ground level concentration at a down level distance of 1Km
varies with wind speed for stability category D when the pressure is 100millibar and ambient temperature is 25 oC
8) A smelting plant emits SO2 at the rate of 100Kg/s and as per stringent central control board norms the maximum
permissible concentration at a distance of 500m from the stack is 80µgm/m 3 wind velocity at the top of chimney is
7.5m/s and the stability coefficient (downwind and cross wind ) σy=35m, σz=20m respectively. A) Calculate the effective
stack height if a particulate emission from the same smelter plant is at the rate of 3x10-3 tons/hr. Calculate the minimum
stack height?
