Simulação da dispersão de poluentes atmosféricos e avaliação da qualidade do ar na área de abrangência do Distrito Industrial de Barcarena-PA

Abstract

The atmospheric pollution is considered, nowadays, one of the biggest problems of the contemporaneous society, turning into a menace to its life quality, because generates negative impacts in the natural and anthropogenic environment. In the range of the forms to control atmospheric pollution originated by settled sources, come forth the emission dilution in the atmosphere due to dispersal effects, the adoption of control equipments before the casting of gases or the relocation of the source, cause it seems to be a suggested form during the environmental licensing process enterprises with potential air pollution. Currently computer models of dispersion of atmospheric pollutants are being largely used on the simulation of concentration of pollutants, objecting to help environmental agencies in the prognostic of air quality or to supply deficiencies of atmospheric emissions monitoring. The present research studies the air quality e evaluates the atmospheric pollutants dispersal over Vila do Conde and influence areas of the industrial district of Barcarena, state of Para, with the help of the AERMOD View model, considering the possibility of establishment of a relation between the levels of pollutants emissions in the source, with the concentration of them in the air and identify critical points of pollution as well. The Air Quality Index – IQA and the fragility of the population over the affected areas by the atmospheric pollutants were also measured in the research. The methodology used allowed to measure the mean concentration of atmospheric pollutants during a defined time of modeling and also information about the reaching of the pollutants plume were acquired. Information concerning the relation between the peak and the mean values of concentration in the receptive areas provoked by enterprises that have operational characteristics similar to the modeled are showed too. The results show that the influence of the meteorological parameters in the dispersion of pollutants are indispensable and determinants in the impact on the air quality prevision and also in the land use planning of areas that have atmospheric polluting activities.