Study on pollution prevention through an integrated process-environmental model in a urea prilling tower
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In this paper, a mathematical description of a real prilling tower is integrated with a simple dispersion model in order to study the ultimate environmental impacts from particulates emitted from the process into the atmosphere. The process model showed good agreement with operating data and measured emission levels. Eighty different scenarios (meteorological data sets) were studied, in none of which a significant environmental impact was observed. The study clearly shows the need for and the points at which ground level measurements should be made.
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