Atmospheric solutions
Air Quality and Source Apportionment Study – International Airport
The team participated in the International Airport; air quality and source apportionment study to assess the potential air impacts from the airport-related sources and operations on the local ambient air quality of the adjacent communities. The emissions inventory quantified airport-related (emissions coming from airport operations) and non-airport related (or background) emissions that occur both on and off the airport.
The results of the emissions inventory were used to:
1) aid in the apportionment of emissions to total emissions within the study area, and 2) to assess the effects of these emissions on pollutant concentrations in the neighboring areas during the winter and summer monitoring seasons. Airport sources include aircraft engines, auxiliary power units (APU), ground support equipment (GSE), motor vehicles traveling along on-airport roadways and within parking facilities, fuel storage tanks, tenant operated stationary sources such as turbines, boilers, generators, fuel storage, and cooling towers, and aggregate stationary sources, and area wide sources located on the airport. Results for the analytical data were documented in a comprehensive report summarizing the findings of each contributor to the overall air quality of the region.