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A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle
Gravel is used in railway infrastructure to reduce environmental impacts and noise, but gravel on tracks must be replaced continuously because it deforms due to wear and weathering. It is therefore necessary to review the entire railroad life cycle. In this study, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125010/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063064 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093206 |
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author | KIM, Min-kyeong Jang, Yelim Heo, Jaeseok Park, Duckshin |
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description | Gravel is used in railway infrastructure to reduce environmental impacts and noise, but gravel on tracks must be replaced continuously because it deforms due to wear and weathering. It is therefore necessary to review the entire railroad life cycle. In this study, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to measure resuspended dust over a wide area. The dust was generated from transport movements in relation to the operation of a quarry, which represents the first stage of the railway life cycle. The dust was measured at Gangwon-do quarry using a Sniffer4D module, which can provide measurements at 1 s intervals through a light scattering method and has high reliability (R(2) = 0.95 for PM(2.5), R(2) = 0.88 for PM(10)). The hourly generation of fugitive dust was calculated as 2937.5 g/h for PM(2.5) and 4293.2 g/h for PM(10). The social cost of dust generation was calculated as KRW 36.59 billion. The amount of dust generated per hour at the quarry was ~12 times greater than that generated by the operation of a regulator as a maintenance vehicle, with the largest amount of fugitive dust generated by the washing-type vehicle. This is the first study to measure the amount of fugitive dust generated in real time at 1 s intervals by monitoring the first stage of the railroad life cycle over a wide area using a Sniffer4D module attached to a UAV. This method can be replicated for use in various studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-81250102021-05-17 A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle KIM, Min-kyeong Jang, Yelim Heo, Jaeseok Park, Duckshin Sensors (Basel) Communication Gravel is used in railway infrastructure to reduce environmental impacts and noise, but gravel on tracks must be replaced continuously because it deforms due to wear and weathering. It is therefore necessary to review the entire railroad life cycle. In this study, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to measure resuspended dust over a wide area. The dust was generated from transport movements in relation to the operation of a quarry, which represents the first stage of the railway life cycle. The dust was measured at Gangwon-do quarry using a Sniffer4D module, which can provide measurements at 1 s intervals through a light scattering method and has high reliability (R(2) = 0.95 for PM(2.5), R(2) = 0.88 for PM(10)). The hourly generation of fugitive dust was calculated as 2937.5 g/h for PM(2.5) and 4293.2 g/h for PM(10). The social cost of dust generation was calculated as KRW 36.59 billion. The amount of dust generated per hour at the quarry was ~12 times greater than that generated by the operation of a regulator as a maintenance vehicle, with the largest amount of fugitive dust generated by the washing-type vehicle. This is the first study to measure the amount of fugitive dust generated in real time at 1 s intervals by monitoring the first stage of the railroad life cycle over a wide area using a Sniffer4D module attached to a UAV. This method can be replicated for use in various studies. MDPI 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8125010/ /pubmed/34063064 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093206 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication KIM, Min-kyeong Jang, Yelim Heo, Jaeseok Park, Duckshin A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title | A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title_full | A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title_fullStr | A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title_full_unstemmed | A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title_short | A UAV-Based Air Quality Evaluation Method for Determining Fugitive Emissions from a Quarry during the Railroad Life Cycle |
title_sort | uav-based air quality evaluation method for determining fugitive emissions from a quarry during the railroad life cycle |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125010/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063064 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093206 |
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