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Impacts of Air Pollutants Emitted from Ships on Environment
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Impacts of Air Pollutants Emitted from Ships on Environment

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3407

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Fan Zhang

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Guest Editor
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: shipping emissions; PM; VOCs; SOA; black carbon; brown carbon

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide recent advances in the field of shipping emissions and relate environmental effect. The shipping industry plays an important role in the international cargo transportation, leading to non-ignorable emission of pollutants. This topic encompasses emission factors/profiles/inventories of gaseous pollutants and particulate matters from ship exhaust, such as NOx, SOx, CO, CO2, VOCs, I/SVOCs, PM, etc., especially under scenarios of more and more stricter emission control measures. Besides, quantifying contributions of shipping emissions to air qurlity by using various methods in specific areas, evaluating healthy/climate effect and revealing transport and transformation of primary pollutants from ship exhaust are also included. The topic is also highly relevant to emission reduction and control measures of shipping emissions.

Topics of interest for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Emission factor/profile/inventory of gaseous pollutants and particulate matters from ship exhaust;
  • Impact of shipping emissions on air qurlity/healthy;
  • Greenhouse gas and climate change;
  • Transport and transformation;
  • Optical effect;
  • Emission reduction and control measures.

Dr. Fan Zhang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • shipping emissions
  • air quality
  • particulate matter
  • gaseous pollutant
  • secondary organic/inorganic aerosol
  • environmental effect
  • climate change
  • reduction and control measures

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A Drone Routing Problem for Ship Emission Detection Considering Simultaneous Movements
by Zhi-Hua Hu, Tian-Ci Liu and Xi-Dan Tian
Atmosphere 2023, 14(2), 373; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020373 - 14 Feb 2023
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Offshore ships’ emission has a tremendous environmental and healthy impact on the port cities and citizens, even though the Emission Control Area (ECA) policy imposes legislative constraints on the ships. It is challenging to detect ships with illegal emissions using traditional administrative and [...] Read more.
Offshore ships’ emission has a tremendous environmental and healthy impact on the port cities and citizens, even though the Emission Control Area (ECA) policy imposes legislative constraints on the ships. It is challenging to detect ships with illegal emissions using traditional administrative and enforcement methods. In addition to a system of ships’ emission detection, a drone-based detection system is investigated, and a drone routing problem is formulated considering the distinct feature: the drone flying while ships move simultaneously. A nonlinear program is devised, and heuristics algorithms are developed to solve the test instances. The numerical experiments demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of using drone routing solutions. The solution algorithm can solve large samples with 50 ships within 2 s, and the computing time is almost linear to the number of ships. The proposed model and algorithms should contribute to drone-based ship emission detection and a featured routing problem. Full article
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Analysis of the Concentration of Emissions from the Spanish Fleet of Tugboats
by Andrés Ortega-Piris, Emma Diaz-Ruiz-Navamuel, Alvaro Herrero Martinez, Miguel A. Gutierrez and Alfonso-Isidro Lopez-Diaz
Atmosphere 2022, 13(12), 2109; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13122109 - 16 Dec 2022
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At present, the sensitivity of society towards emissions in commercial maritime ports is increasing, which is reflected in the large number of studies on the control of emissions in them, perhaps because the most important commercial ports are located in cities with high [...] Read more.
At present, the sensitivity of society towards emissions in commercial maritime ports is increasing, which is reflected in the large number of studies on the control of emissions in them, perhaps because the most important commercial ports are located in cities with high population density. The objective of this work was to determine the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the activity of the Spanish tugboat fleet, studying the tugboat fleet of the eleven autonomous coastal Spanish communities from 2004 to 2017 and their impact on the carbon footprint of the country’s shipping sector. To do this, the methodology used by the International Maritime Organization for merchant ships to estimate the emissions of a tugboat fleet is formalized, and Gini concentration index methodology was applied to the concentration of emissions from this fleet. This has made it possible to obtain results on the distribution of the concentration of emissions from Spanish ports by region, age, and size, as well as to establish the profile of the tugboat port that pollutes the most and its carbon footprint. One of the results is that in the period analyzed, the concentration of emissions from the Spanish tugboat fleet increased if we looked at its distribution by region, and decreased if we look at its distribution by age and size. This is because tugboat activity was very different by region; however, their characteristics related to age and size evolved in a more homogeneous way. Full article
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