PREDICTION OF POLLUTANTS EMISSIONS DISPERSION OF PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS PRODUCTION FACILITY

Hamdi A. Abdel Salam

Abstract: This study aims to the prediction of pollutants emissions dispersion of a 1 M·ton/year phosphate fertilizer facility, which is located at El-Menya Governorate, Egypt. ALOHA air dispersion software is used to predict the pollutant emissions dispersion from different stacks in the proposed project. The estimated total pollutant emissions from the proposed project are 3180 g/m3 of hydrogen fluoride (HF), 72000 g/m3 of sulfur dioxide (SO2), 14700 g/m3 of sulfur tri-oxide (SO3), 2700 g/m3 of ammonia (NH3), and 53550 g/m3 of particulates (PM). Based on the total pollutant emissions from the project, the concentrations of the investigated pollution emissions at 0.5 km, 1 km and 2 km downstream the source at the worst case scenario are obtained and compared with the allowed limits. It has been found that all the emissions resulted from different activities in the proposed project are much lower than the allowed limits specified by the Egyptian ministry of environment in Law 4/1994, and therefore the proposed project is not expected to cause any undesirable impacts on the surrounding environment.

Keywords: Air pollution; Air dispersion modeling; Environmental impact assessment; Phosphate fertilizer industry.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0211047