''Stenungsund-77'': Smoke Plume Measurements with a Pulsed Dye Laser.

摘要

This report describes some of the results obtained in a field experiment at Stenungsund in May 1977, under the support and coordination of the Swedish Space Corporation. We made lidar measurements with a pulsed tunable dye laser working at wavelengths in the uv and visible part of the spectrum. The study concerned SO sub 2 -absorption, NO sub 2 -absorption, and particle scattering in the smoke plume of an oil fuel electric power plant. The SO sub 2 -burden in the plume, near the smoke stack exit, as estimated from our lidar measurements, is compatible with in situ measurements and calculated values. The NO sub 2 -concentration proved to be lower than the sensitivity limit of our lidar system. The particle scattering experiments led to qualitative results, and only permitted order of magnitude estimates of particle concentrations. They show, however, that a low power, eye safe uv lidar was capable of tracking plumes undiscernible to the eye, out to a distance of 2 to 3 km. (ERA citation 04:001317)