Schuyler Travis J, Irvin Bradley, Abad Keemia, Thompson Jesse G, Liu Kunlei, Guzman Marcelo I
Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40511, USA.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Dec 6;20(23):6974. doi: 10.3390/s20236974.
The quantification of atmospheric gases with small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) is expanding the ability to safely perform environmental monitoring tasks and quickly evaluate the impact of technologies. In this work, a calibrated sUAS is used to quantify the emissions of ammonia (NH) gas from the exit stack a 0.1 MWth pilot-scale carbon capture system (CCS) employing a 5 M monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent to scrub CO from coal combustion flue gas. A comparison of the results using the sUAS against the ion chromatography technique with the EPA CTM-027 method for the standard emission sampling of NH shows good agreement. Therefore, the work demonstrates the usefulness of sUAS as an alternative method of emission measurement, supporting its application in lieu of traditional sampling techniques to collect real time emission data.
利用小型无人机系统(sUAS)对大气气体进行量化,正在拓展安全执行环境监测任务以及快速评估技术影响的能力。在这项工作中,使用了经过校准的sUAS来量化来自一个0.1兆瓦热功率中试规模碳捕集系统(CCS)出口烟囱的氨气(NH₃)排放,该系统采用5M单乙醇胺(MEA)溶剂来洗涤煤燃烧烟气中的二氧化碳(CO₂)。将使用sUAS得到的结果与采用EPA CTM - 027方法进行氨气标准排放采样的离子色谱技术所得结果进行比较,显示出良好的一致性。因此,这项工作证明了sUAS作为一种替代排放测量方法的实用性,支持其替代传统采样技术来收集实时排放数据的应用。