The purpose of this study is to investigate concentration and emission factor of 22 odorous compounds, which are regulated by the domestic act, emitted from poultry buildings by on-site investigation. The odorous compounds which were detected in at least one poultry building were ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, trimethyl amine, styrene, toluene, xylene and methyl ethyl ketone whereas other 12 odorous compounds were not detected in poultry buildings. Generally there was no consistent concentration distribution of odorous compounds between poultry building applied with forced ventilation and poultry building applied with natural ventilation. It was found, however, that there was considerable concentration difference among odorous compounds. In monthly distribution of odorous compounds, their concentrations in September and October when ventilation rate in pig building decreased relatively were generally higher than those in July and August when ventilation rate in pig building is relatively high. On the contrary, emission factors of odorous compounds, in terms of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, in poultry building were relatively higher in July and August than September and October. The limit of this study is that unexpected conditions such as clearance of poultry building, poultry shipment and disorder of air pump were not controlled intentionally on the on-site investigation days.
The present study investigated the concentration of gaseous odor emitted from paint manufacturing facilities and the cases of improvement for odor emission reduction. It was found that the companies located in odor management district observed the odor emission standard more than the companies located in other local industrial complex. We ascribed the reason to the continuous crackdown by local government and voluntary efforts of each companies. Finally, we described the improvement cases of process for odor emission reduction.
Noise barriers along the road do not only block the traffic noise but also prevent traversing the car exhausts. These barriers may affect air pollution dispersion, leading to increase vertical mixing due to the upwind deflection of air flow caused by the noise barriers. In this study we investigated the air pollution dispersion around multi-noise barriers using commercial software FLUENT. Investigated cases were 8 cases which had from zero to three noise barriers and two emission sources. Simulated results show noise barriers increase the vertical air pollution impact distance larger 1.7~2.1 times than that of no barrier case. It was also found that noise barriers decrease the horizontal air pollution impact distance lower 0.6~0.8 times than that of no barrier case.
This study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between the concentration and dilution factor (ratio) using the Air Dilution Olfactory Method, which is suggested in the Standard Method of Odor Compounds, by measuring dilution factor for 5 types of aldehyde compounds and styrene. For the measurement, 13 panelists were selected by several criteria through panel test. Panelists chosen for their closely similar sensitivities provide more reproducible values. The estimation showed that the correlation of the concentration with dilution factor for the 12 compounds including the sulfur compounds, ammonia, and trimethylamine can be reasonably expressed by the equation log C=Af∙logD+F(Af: material constant, F: constant). The result of this study is suggested to be used as a base data for research on measures to improve the regulation standards for complex odor concentration on site boundary in operation, as well as a correlation between the concentration and dilution factor for the designated foul odor substances, and their characteristics.
This study investigated impact of odors from industrial areas using the FIDOL concept. The studied region was the Seobu industrial complex in Korea. The USEPA dispersion model, AERMOD, was used to calculate odor concentration. The results show that the size of the impact areas of lower regulation compliance frequency is smaller than that of the areas of higher regulation compliance frequency. The results also showed that increasing the concentration of odor unit (OU) decreased the size of the impact area and the maximum impact distance. Calculated odor impact area, using Massachusetts (USA) regulations, had the smallest impact area among selected locations such as Massachusetts (USA), New Zealand, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Denmark’s regulations had the largest impact area.
Methyl mercaptan (MT) is one of the 22 legal designated odorous compounds in Korea. It has been reported as the main malodorous compounds of odor problems found from foot-and-mouth disease in 2012. This study on the removal of MT using the pallet-type activated carbon fiber (ACF) was carried out to get an optimum inflow loading rate and an optimum residence time required for the effective ACF odor removal device. As a result of the study, if the loading rate of MT runs at or below 0.5 g-S/kg dry ACF/d, MT removal rate by ACF could reach about 95%. However, based on the effect of Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) which is the reaction product of MT partial oxidation, it was estimated that the deodorizer of ACF should keep the optimum loading rate of MT less than or equal to 0.2 g-S/kg dry ACF/d. When ACF deodorizers were processed with Space Velocity (SV) at 600 h-1, the effect of DMDS was found, even though MT was not detected at the outlet. Therefore, in order to meet the outlet gas of the odor concentration which is less than or equal to 100 D/T, it is recommended that the optimum values of SV and EBRT were less than 300 h-1 and more than 12 seconds, respectively.