Transport and Dispersion from Cooling Towers in the Complex Topography of the Tuscany Geothermal Areas
- Key words
- transport and diffusion, wind field, pollution, complex terrain, dispersion modelling
- Location
- Tuscany, Italy
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 13 - Environmental and Social Aspects
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- Salerno
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Abstract
A transport-dispersion model has been applied for a geothermal region in Tuscany with various typical meteorological situations. The wind fields are given by a model developed for complex orography. The pollutant sources are given by some cooling towers places in the area. The simulations have shown the importance of the knowledge of the air flow in such a region. It can be shown that the plumes can be transported quite far from the area or concentrates themselves along a slope depending on the meteorological conditions and the topography. The latter feature is able to strongly influence the plume, whose trajectory is also dependent on the source characteristics.
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