Title: Modelling of air pollution in the area of Algiers City, Algeria

Authors: Farid Rahal; Nassira Benharrats; Nadège Blond; Alain Clappier; Jean Luc Ponche

Addresses: Department of Architecture, University of Science and Technology of Oran Mohamed BOUDIAF, BP 1505 El M'naouer – Oran, Algeria ' Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of Oran Mohamed BOUDIAF, BP 1505 El M'naouer Oran, Algeria ' CNRS, Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, F-67000 Strasbourg, France ' Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7362, F-67000 Strasbourg, France ' Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, F-67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie, Université de Strasbourg, l'Environnement et la Santé (ICPEES), UMR7515, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

Abstract: Algiers is the political and economic capital of Algeria. The city drains a large part of the activities of the country with intense road traffic. This road traffic is the main source of air pollution, followed by industry and waste combustion. An application of the new road traffic emission model, called EMISENS, is performed to build road traffic emission inventories for the Algiers region. These emission inventories are then used as input to the MM5/CHIMERE system to estimate air pollution. The objective of this study is to propose a methodology to improve the quality of emission inventories, and to validate results. First, by studying the correlation between observed measurements and data concerning cadastre of primary pollutants emitted mainly by road traffic, then by comparing the pollutants concentrations from observed measures with the simulated concentrations with the model of chemistry-transport CHIMERE.

Keywords: air pollution; EMISENS; emission inventories; CHIMERE; MM5; Algeria; road traffic; traffic emissions; emission modelling; vehicle emissions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2014.064049

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2014 Vol.54 No.1, pp.32 - 58

Accepted: 11 Mar 2014
Published online: 30 Aug 2014 *

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