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Bernalillo County PM10 Emission Inventory for 2004 FINAL Bernalillo County PM10 Emission Inventory for 2004 Prepared by David DuBois Ilias Kavouras Prakash Doraiswamy Jin Xu Desert Research Institute Division of Atmospheric Sciences 755 E. Flamingo Rd Las Vegas, NV Prepared for Mr. Fabian Macias Air Quality Division City of Albuquerque 11850 Sunset Gardens Rd, SW Albuquerque, NM 87121 April 27, 2006 1 Acknowledgements This work was funded by the City of Albuquerque’s Air Quality Division in the Environmental Health Department for developing a PM10 emission inventory for point, area and mobile sources for the calendar year of 2004. We appreciate the work of Dr. Brinda Ramanathan for providing research in various sectors as well as taking part in the quality assurance. The authors sincerely thank the following personnel for their help at different stages of this work: Mr. Fabian Macias and Ms Stephanie Summers of the Air Quality Division, Mr. Glen Dennis and Mr. Ron Latimer of the Vehicle Pollution Management Division and Ms. Shohreh Day and Mr. Nathan Masek of Mid Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). 2 Table of Contents List of Tables 6 List of Figures 10 Acronyms 12 1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................15 1.1 Inventory Year...........................................................................................................15 1.2 Geographic Domain...................................................................................................15 1.3 Pollutant.....................................................................................................................15 1.4 Spatial Resolution......................................................................................................15 1.5 Temporal Resolution.................................................................................................16 2. Inventory Methods............................................................................................................16 2.1 Data Collection Methods...........................................................................................16 2.2 Emission Inventory Development .............................................................................18 2.3 Data Management and Quality Assurance ................................................................18 3. Mobile Source PM10 .........................................................................................................18 3.1 MOBILE6 and NONROAD2005 Models.................................................................18 3.1.1 MOBILE6 Model.............................................................................................19 3.1.2 NONROAD2005 Model..................................................................................19 3.2 Estimation of On-road Mobile Source Emissions.....................................................20 3.2.1 Input Parameters ..............................................................................................20 3.2.2 Calendar Year of Evaluation............................................................................20 3.2.3 Month of Evaluation ........................................................................................21 3.2.4 Environmental Data.........................................................................................21 3.2.5 Fuel Specifications...........................................................................................22 3.3 Fleet Characteristics and Related Inputs ...................................................................24 3.3.1 Inspection and Maintenance Program and Anti-Tampering Program (ATP)..27 3.4 Model Runs and Emission Calculations....................................................................27 3.4.1 Emission Calculation Methodology.................................................................28 3.5 Assignment of Source Classification Codes (SCC) ..................................................28 3.6 Discussion of Results................................................................................................29 3.7 Estimation of Non-Road Mobile Sources..................................................................33 3.7.1 Input Parameters ..............................................................................................33 3.7.2 Minimum and Maximum Temperatures ..........................................................33 3.7.3 Fuel Specifications...........................................................................................33 3.7.4 Effectiveness of Stage II Controls for Non-Road Equipment .........................34 3.8 Model Runs and Emission Calculations....................................................................34 3.9 Addition of Locomotive, Marine Vessels and Aircraft Emissions............................34 3.10 Discussion of Results ................................................................................................36 4. Area Source PM10 Emissions............................................................................................37 4.1 Biomass Burning.......................................................................................................37 4.1.1 Wildfires and Prescribed Burning....................................................................37 4.1.2 Residential Wood Burning...............................................................................38 3 4.2 Structure, Vehicle and Ordinance Fires.....................................................................40 4.3 Charbroiling...............................................................................................................42 4.4 Agriculture.................................................................................................................42 4.4.1 Land Preparation..............................................................................................43 4.4.2 Harvesting........................................................................................................44 4.4.3 Agricultural Unpaved Roads............................................................................45 4.5 Construction Fugitive Dust........................................................................................45 4.6 Paved Road Dust .......................................................................................................46 4.7 Unpaved Road Dust...................................................................................................47 4.8 Exempt Fugitive Dust Sources ..................................................................................50 4.8.1 Agricultural Areas............................................................................................50 4.8.2 Recreational Trails...........................................................................................50 4.8.3 Residential Unpaved Roads.............................................................................53 4.8.4 Short Unpaved Roads ......................................................................................53 4.8.5 Private Easement Unpaved Roads ...................................................................54 4.8.6 Forest Service Unpaved Roads ........................................................................54 4.8.7 Ranching and Federal Unpaved Roads............................................................56 4.8.8 Residential Lots ...............................................................................................57 4.9 Windblown Fugitive Dust .........................................................................................57 4.9.1 Entrained Soil Factor (A).................................................................................58 4.9.2 Soil Erodibility (I)............................................................................................58 4.9.3 Climatic Factor (C) ..........................................................................................63 4.9.4 Surface Roughness (K) ....................................................................................63 4.9.5 Unsheltered Field Width Factor (L).................................................................64 4.9.6 Vegetative Cover Factor (V)............................................................................64 5. Point Source PM10 ............................................................................................................65 6. Ammonia Emissions.........................................................................................................66 6.1 Livestock ...................................................................................................................67 6.1.1 Activity Data....................................................................................................68 6.1.2 Emission Factor ...............................................................................................69 6.1.3 Emission Estimate............................................................................................70 6.2 Fertilizer Use.............................................................................................................70 6.2.1 Activity Data....................................................................................................70 6.2.2 Emission Factor ...............................................................................................71 6.2.3 Emission Estimate............................................................................................72
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