Development of an Automatic System for Control And
Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol 13, © 1997 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3541 Development of an Automatic System for Control and Prevention of Air Pollution in Huelva (Spain). F. Martin, I. Palomino, C. Gorostiza, C. Gonzalez, A. Bailador, E. Sanchez, M. Palacios and S. Nunez. Centra de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas. (CIEMAT). Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Abstract An automatic system for control of the air pollution in the industrialised area of Huelva is being developed by the Environment Institute and the Technology Directorate of CIEMAT which has been contracted by the Environment Agency of the Government of Andalucia. This system is called SIC AH (which is the acronym of Sistema Informatico para el Control y la Prevencion de la Contamination Atmosferica en Huelva). Huelva is a heavily industrialised (chemical industries, refineries, etc) coastal area located in the Southwest of Spain. SICAH is an application that runs under Windows 95/NT operative system. Its kernel has been built in C++ , that integrates a geographic representation system and runs Fortran numerical scientific codes. SICAH has been designed to receive and process automatically in real-time the information (which are in a ORACLE database) of the air quality, emission and meteorological network in the industrial area of Huelva and provide predictions of the concentrations of SC^, STP, TRS and CO for several hours ahead. The core of SICAH is a mesoscale Lagrangian puff dispersion model which also deals with the pollutant deposition. Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol 13, © 1997 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3541 152 Measurements and Modelling in Environmental Pollution 1 Introduction About 15 years ago, the evaluation systems of the pollution produced by large pollutant emission sources in real time were fundamentally restricted to the use of computers to replace the existing manual calculations of atmospheric dispersion, dose estimate, etc.
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