Author(s)

Daniele Contini, Andrea Corti & Alan Robins

Abstract

Gaseous pollutant dispersion measurements on an wind tunnel model of a waste incinerator Daniele Contini\ Andrea Corti* & Alan Robins^ Mar/a E-mail: contini@fias.de.imifi.it; corti@pineUng.unifi.it 2 EnFlo, School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, E-mail: a.robins@surrey.ac.uk Abstract A wind tunnel study of plume rise and dispersion at a twin-stack waste incinerator has been carried out in the large stratified wind tunnel facility at the EnFlo Research Centre (University of Surrey). The model scale was 1 to 300 and measurements of mean scalar gas concentration were performed with a flame ionisation detector (FID) based system in a neutral boundary layer simulating a rural environment. Standard buoyancy scaling relationships were used to determine the discharge conditions at model scale. Mean plume heights, lateral and vertical spreads were obtained from the analysis of vertical and crosswind concentration profiles measured at different downstream distances

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