3rd ACI Airport Environmental Seminar
Local Air Quality and Airport Source Apportionment
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LAX
Air Quality &
Source Apportionment Study
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World’s 6th Busiest @ 67 MAP / 600,000+ Ops. (Tokyo @ 57 MAP)
2nd Most Populated Area in U.S.
Four Parallel Runways / Nine Terminals
$4B+(U.S) Modernization Program
LAX Looking West
LAX Looking East
International Terminal
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Sponsor: Los Angeles World Airports
Time/Costs: Five Years (2008 – 13) $5M+U.S.
Motive: LAX Master Plan Commitment
Purpose: Assess Contribution of On-Airport Sources to Off-airport Concentrations
Qualification: Not a Human Health Effects Study
www.lawa.org/airqualitystudy/
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1. Local Air Quality
2. Source Apportionment
Source A
Source B
Source C
Receptor
Westchester Community
Park North of LAX
LAX Entrance
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LAX Study Area
Core Station
Satellite Station
Gradient Station
Station Type
Community South – CS
AQ Site
Community North - CN
Community East – CE
Wind Rose
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Motor Vehicle Traffic
Power Plant & Oil Refineries
El Segundo Power Plant Maritime Shipping
Marine Vessels
Interstate 405
Area Sources
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Emissions Inventories
Modeling
Source Based
Receptor Based
Source Activity Levels
Airport (Ops., GSE, etc.)
Non-Airport (motor vehicle & ship traffic, stationary sources)
Air Quality Monitoring (CO, NO2, SO2, PM2.5, UFP, HAPs, BC, meteorology)
Monitoring
Activity Levels
Emissions Inventories
Modeling
Source Apportionment
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Community Site
Gradient Site
Mobile Van
Runways
Roadways
Taxiways
Aprons
Aprons Parking Facilities LAX Point Sources Point Sources Area Sources
Marine Vessels Receptors
Results
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Stationary Reference
Monitor for Mobile Survey
NOx
PM2.5
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Mike Kenney