A influência da emissão de NOx a partir de uma chaminé de termelétrica na atmosfera: modelagem e simulação.

Abstract

Air pollution is now considered one of the greatest problems of contemporary society, because it threatens their quality of life, as it creates negative impacts on the natural and anthropic environment. In the present work a phenomenological mathematical model was defined representing the dispersion of the pollutant from a chimney of a thermoelectric plant and the reactions involved in the process. The studied effluent is nitrogen oxides (NOX), one of the gases that cause acid rain. In this sense, numerical simulations were performed to describe reactive and hydrodynamic processes that occur in the Atmospheric Limit Layer, with the objective of evaluating the operational parameters such as air velocity, pressure and the mass fractions of each substance present in the reactions. The Ansys CFX® software version 15.0 was used. The turbulence model used k  standard The results indicate that for better dispersion of pollutants the conditions of instability have lower indices of concentration of nitric acids, nitrous and nitrogen dioxides. The increasing ambient temperature favors the production of nitric and nitrous acids, but there were no significant differences for nitrogen dioxide.