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Mercury Measurement Programs within NOAA/ARL

Mercury Measurement Programs within NOAA/ARL. Steve Brooks, Mark Cohen, Tilden Meyers, Paul Kelley, Winston Luke NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory Prepared for the NOAA Atmospheric Mercury Meeting November 14-15, 2006, Silver Spring, MD. I. Intensive Monitoring.

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Mercury Measurement Programs within NOAA/ARL

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  1. Mercury Measurement Programs within NOAA/ARL Steve Brooks, Mark Cohen, Tilden Meyers, Paul Kelley, Winston Luke NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory Prepared for the NOAA Atmospheric Mercury Meeting November 14-15, 2006, Silver Spring, MD

  2. I. Intensive Monitoring • Previous Intensive Measurements: • Cove Mtn, TN -Summer 2002 • Gulf of Mexico (Ship) –Summer 2003 • Oxford and Wye, MD –Summer 2004 • Harcum, VA –Summer 2005 • TEXAQSII, Moody Towers –Summer 2006

  3. Diurnal Hg(0) Concentrations Diurnal Hg-p Concentrations

  4. Diurnal RGM Concentrations

  5. Wind speed and direction at Oxford (Jun-Aug, 2004) Symbol color indicates type of mercury source coal incinerator metals manuf/other other fuel Symbol size and shape indicates 1999 emissions of Hg(II) (kg/yr) 10 - 20 20 - 50 50 - 100 100 pg/m3 100 – 200 Concentration of RGM as a function of wind direction at Oxford (Jun-Aug, 2004) 200 pg/m3 1999 RGM emissions near Oxford, Maryland

  6. II. Relaxed Eddy Accumulation (RGM) Switch control box NERI LABTOP Heating mantels with denuders Ultrasonic anemometer Ultrasonic anemometer controller box Mass flow controller Switching valves Pump

  7. Canaan Valley Institute-NOAA Grand Bay NOAA III. Long-term Monitoring Beltsville EPA-NOAA Three sites committed to speciated mercury ambient concentration measurement network

  8. Motivation and Goals • Establish long-term data record of ambient concentrations (Hg0, RGM, FPM) & Wet Deposition • Discern trends in atmospheric concentrations • Derive dry deposition estimates • Concurrent measurements of secondary and co-emitted primary pollutants • Elucidate source-receptor relationships • Correlation with ancillary trace species to better understand the origins and chemical cycling of mercury in the atmosphere • Data set for model evaluation

  9. Grand Bay NERR Site Grand Bay Estuarine Research Reserve 10

  10. Monitoring Site NOAA Mississippi Alabama SEARCH USGS UWF/FSU MDN Barry type of mercury emissions source paper manuf paper manuf AL02 Pascagoula MSW incin coal-fired power plant Mobile Molino Crist Victor J. Daniel total atmospheric mercury emissions (kg/yr, 1999 EPA NEI) Holcim Cement Pace waste incinerator OLF haz waste incin Ellyson AL24 manufacturing Weeks Bay Mobile Bay 1 – 50 Jack Watson metallurgical Pascagoula 50 - 100 other fuel combustion 100 - 200 NOAA Grand Bay NERR Hg site 200 - 400 Location of the new NOAA Grand Bay NERR Atmospheric Mercury monitoring site, other atmospheric Hg monitoring sites, and major Hg point sources in the region (EPA 1999 NEI emissions inventory) 11

  11. 10 km Grand Bay NERR Site Pascagoula MSW Incinerator Pascagoula, MS 12

  12. 1 km Grand Bay NERR Site 30.4294, -88.4277 30.412, -88.404 13

  13. Status of Atmospheric Measurements at Grand Bay NERR, Mississippi Type of Measurement: A = concentration in ambient air B = concentration in precipitation C = meteorological parameter * to be established 14

  14. Pictures of Planned (Eventual) Monitoring Site View looking east from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pavilion at Grand Bay NERR View looking south and west from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pavilion at Grand Bay NERR 15

  15. Monitoring sites rural AQS other AQS NADP/MDN CASTNet Symbol color indicates type of mercury source Hg site IMPROVE coal incinerator metals manuf/other Symbol size and shape indicates 1999 mercury emissions, kg/yr 1 - 50 50 - 100 100 - 200 200 – 400 400 - 700 700 – 1000 > 1000 Beltsville, MD CASTNet Site Brunner Island Large Incinerators: 3 medical waste, 1 MSW, 1 haz waste (Total Hg ~ 500 kg/yr) Harford County MSW Incin Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner 100 miles from DC Montgomery County MSW Incin Eddystone Dickerson Arlington - Pentagon MSW Incin Possum Point Beltsville monitoring site Chalk Point Morgantown Bremo

  16. Beltsville site Simple dispersion example for emissions from Morgantown coal-fired power plant • Simplified wet/dry deposition • no plume chemistry • EDAS-40 km met data (3-hr res) • results displayed are the concentration averaged between 0-10 meters above the ground for a 1 gram/hr continuous emissions rate • Morgantown RGM ~120 kg/yr or ~14 g/hr • Example -- 10-11 g/m3 (dark blue) is in the range 10-11 to 10-9 ~ 140 – 14,000 pg/m3 • Example -- 10-13 g/m3 (green) is in the range 10-13 to 10-11 ~ 1.4 - 140 pg/m3

  17. 18 Note – times shown are UTC, e.g., 7 PM UTC = 3 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time

  18. Note – times shown are UTC, e.g., 7 PM UTC = 3 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time

  19. Status of Atmospheric Measurements at Beltsville, MD CASTNet Site

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