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Application of a Small Unmanned Aerial System to Measure Ammonia Emissions from a Pilot Amine-CO<sub>2</sub> Capture System.

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The quantification of atmospheric gases with small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) is expanding the ability to safely perform environmental monitoring tasks and quickly evaluate the impact of technologies. In this work, a calibrated sUAS is used to quantify the emissions of ammonia (NH) gas from the exit stack a 0.1 MWth pilot-scale carbon capture system (CCS) employing a 5 M monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent to scrub CO from coal combustion flue gas. A comparison of the results using the sUAS against the ion chromatography technique with the EPA CTM-027 method for the standard emission sampling of NH shows good agreement. Therefore, the work demonstrates the usefulness of sUAS as an alternative method of emission measurement, supporting its application in lieu of traditional sampling techniques to collect real time emission data.

Year of Publication
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2020
Journal
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Volume
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20
Issue
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23
Date Published
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2020
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https://www.mdpi.com/resolver?pii=s20236974
DOI
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10.3390/s20236974
Short Title
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Sensors (Basel)
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