Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 505, Issue -, Pages 640-648Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.049
Keywords
Atmospheric emission; Bioenergy; Air quality modelling
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- BIOGAIR project - COMPETE [PTDC/AAC-AMB/103866/2008, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-008587]
- Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) [PEst-C/MAR/LA0017/2013]
- Portuguese 'Ministerio da Ciencia, da Tecnologia e do Ensino Superior' [BI/UI88/6288/2012, SFRH/BPD/63796/2009]
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The increase of the share of renewable energy in Portugal can be met from different sources, of which forest biomass residues (FBR) can play a main role. Taking into account the demand for information about the strategy of FBR to energy, and its implications on the Portuguese climate policy, the impact of energy conversion of FBR on air quality is evaluated. Three emission scenarios were defined and a numerical air quality model was selected to perform this evaluation. The results reveal that the biomass thermal plants contribute to an increment of the pollutant concentrations in the atmosphere, however restricted to the surrounding areas of the thermal plants, and most significant for NO2 and O-3. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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