title: Emission inventory of primary air pollutants in 2010 from industrial processes in Turkey.
abstract: The broad objective of this study was to develop CO2, PM, SOx, CO, NOx, VOC, NH3 and N2O emission inventory of organic and inorganic chemicals, mineral products, metallurgical, petroleum refining, wood products, food industries of Turkey for 2010 for both co]ntrolled and uncontrolled conditions. In this study, industries were investigated in 7 main categories and 53 sub-sectors and a representative number of pollutants per sub-sector were considered. Each industry was evaluated in terms of emitted emissions only from industrial processes, and fuel combustion activities were excluded (except cement industry). The study employed an approach designed in four stages; identification of key categories; activity data & emission factor search; emission factor analyzing; calculation of emissions. Emission factor analyzing required aggregate and firm analysis of sectors and sub-sectors and deeper insights into underlying specific production methods used in the industry to decide on the most representative emission factor. Industry specific abatement technologies were considered by using open-source documents and industry specific reports. Regarding results of this study, mineral industry and iron & steel industry were determined as important contributors of industrial emissions in Turkey in 2010. Respectively, organic chemicals, petroleum refining, and pulp & paper industries had serious contributions to Turkey's air pollutant emission inventory from industrial processes. The results showed that calculated CO2 emissions for year 2010 was 55,124,263 t, also other emissions were 48,853 t PM, 24,533 t SOx, 79,943 t NOx, 31,908 t VOC, 454 t NH3 and 2264 t N2O under controlled conditions.
authors.affiliation: Bahcesehir University, Environmental Engineering Department, Ciragan Cd. Osmanpasa Mektebi Sk. Besiktas 34353 Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: ummugulsumalyuz@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ummugulsum
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Alyuz
authors.affiliation: Istanbul Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, ITU Ayazaga Kampusu, Insaat Fakultesi, Maslak 34469, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: kalp@itu.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alp
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D007221:Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Air pollution; Emission inventory; Industrial processes; Primary pollutants; Turkey