Atmospheric Aerosol Source -Receptor Relationships:
The Role of Coal -Fired Power Plants
Allen Robinson, Spyros Pandis, Cliff Davidson
Carnegie Mellon University
This report by Department of Energy (DOE) published
in 2000 was to study the proportion of fine particulate to coal
power plants. An interesting finding is that wood burners create
more smoke than the power plant. The two slides below from the
report show a pie chart that indicates that wood smoke as a source
of fine particulate is equal to any of the other sources in the
area. We include the nice picture of tCarnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh,
PA, where the samples were taken. Notice that it is a campus area
where one would not expect a local source of wood smoke. (http://www.netl.doe.gov/coalpower/environment/)
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