Graduation Year
2002
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.
Degree Granting Department
Chemistry
Major Professor
Noreen Poor, PhD
Co-Major Professor
Abdul Malik, PhD
Keywords
spatial concentrations, diffusion coefficient for ammonia, diffusivity, area sampling, tampa bay estuary program
Abstract
The purposes of this research were to determine the efficacy of using the Ogawa® passive sampling device (PSD) to measure ammonia and to identify significant ammonia sources adjacent to Hillsborough and Tampa Bay. Ninety-four samplers were deployed over a 180-km2 area for two weeks in October 2001. Within the area sampled were located suburbs, an urban center, major highways, port activities, fertilizer manufacturing, wastewater treatment, coal-combustion power plants, warehousing and dairy farming. The sampled locations were arranged in a triangular grid pattern spaced 1.5 km apart. The pattern was designed to locate circular hot spots with a minimum radius of 0.75 km.
The minimum, maximum, mean, and median ammonia concentrations were 0.06, 15, 2.0, and 1.5 mg/m3, respectively, and the estimated precision was 16%. Hot spots identified from kriged concentration data coincided with inventoried ammonia sources. The relative bias and precision of the PSD based on collocation with an annular denuder system were (plus or minus) 30 % and 20 %.
Scholar Commons Citation
Tate, Paul, "Ammonia Sampling using Ogawa® Passive Samplers" (2002). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1530
