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Assessing and Modelling of Some Air Emissions Produced from MOPCO Fertilizers, Damietta, Egypt

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Earth and environmental sciences.

Abstract

 This study assesses the environmental aspects and air quality in chemical fertilizer industry. Misr Fertilizers Company (MOPCO) at Damietta, Egypt was used as a case study to monitor indoor and outdoor air emissions to find out the main source of air pollution and evaluate the air quality in the facility. MOPCO is located within the general free zone of Damietta Port and covers an area of 400,000 m2 including three factories, three ammonia plants, and three urea production plants and a service area. Monitoring of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ammonia (NH3) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in addition to particulate matter (PM10), noise and heat stress was carried out in the production units in MOPCO (e.g., filling area, ammonia pumping area, and boiler area (BFW) from January 2018 to July 2019. Outdoor air emissions were measured from the outlet stacks of granulation, reformer and the boiler at MOPCO. The obtained results from the three sites were less than the maximum permissible limits for CO (25 ppm), SO2 (2 ppm), NO2 (3 ppm), and NH3 (25 ppm) according to Egyptian Environment Protection Low No. 4/1994 and its amendments (No. 9/2009). Detailed air dispersion modeling (AERMOD) was applied to determine the likelihood ground level concentrations resulting from the outdoor air emissions of NO2, NH3, CO and PM10 from the stacks in MOPCO. The individual risk exposures from MOPCO have been evaluated and found to be below the maximum tolerable risk levels allowed by the Egyptian Environment Protection Low No. 4/1994.

DOI

10.21608/ajbas.2020.28248.1013

Keywords

Risk assessment, Air Quality, AERMOD, fertilizers, MOPCO, Damietta

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelaal

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Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

ahmed_abdelaal@sci.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

Orcid

0000-0002-7121-3674

First Name

Haitham

Last Name

Safwat

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Occupational Health and Safety Section Head, MOPCO, Damietta, Egypt

Email

h.safwat@mopco-eg.com

City

Damietta

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First Name

Mokhtar

Last Name

Beheary

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

beheary@hotmail.com

City

Port Said

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1

Article Issue

2

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15213

Issue Date

2020-07-01

Receive Date

2020-04-19

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

123

Page End

136

Online ISSN

2682-275X

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Original Article

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947

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Publication Title

Alfarama Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences

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https://ajbas.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023