Models for Estimating the Parameters of Smoke Emissions from Thermal Power Plants from Satellite Information

Abstract

The problem of estimating the characteristics of the rise of smoke plumes from pipes of industrial enterprises is discussed. For these purposes, data from ground-based and satellite observations, information about the dynamic and thermal parameters of emission sources are used. Solutions of the equations of atmospheric hydrothermodynamics are used as basic relations. The analysis of the characteristics of the rise of smoke mixtures from the high-altitude stacks of the Novo-Irkutsk thermal power plant was carried out on the basis of satellite images and aerological sounding data. For specific meteorological conditions, an additional rise height of the smoke plume was determined and estimates of the permissible upper and lower limits of the vertical velocities of smoke mixtures from high-altitude stacks were obtained. It is expedient to apply the proposed approach in conditions of cloudless weather and in the presence of color uniformity of the earth's surface, which ensures high contrast of smoke plume shadows.