Woo, Sang-Hee Kwak, Kyung-Hwan Bae, Gwi-Nam Kim, Kyung Hwan Kim, Chang Hyeok Yook, Se-Jin Jeon, Sangzin Kwon, Sangil Kim, Jeongsoo Lee, Seung-Bok 2024-01-20T03:02:33Z 2024-01-20T03:02:33Z 2021-09-05 2016-11 0269-7491 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/123498 The unintended influence of exhaust plumes emitted from a vehicle ahead to on-road air quality surveying data measured with a mobile laboratory (ML) at 20-40 km h(-1) in dense traffic areas was investigated by experiment and life-sized computational fluidic dynamics (CFD) simulation. The ML equipped with variable sampling inlets of five columns by four rows was used to measure the spatial distribution of CO2 and NOx concentrations when following 5-20 m behind a sport utility vehicle (SUV) as an emitter vehicle equipped with a portable emission monitoring system (PEMS). The PEMS measured exhaust gases at the tailpipe for input data of the CFD simulations. After the CFD method was verified with experimental results of the SUV, dispersion of exhaust plumes emitted from a bus and a sedan was numerically analyzed. More dilution of the exhaust plume was observed at higher vehicle speeds, probably because of eddy diffusion that was proportional to turbulent kinetic energy and vehicle speed. The CO2 and NOx concentrations behind the emitter vehicle showed less overestimation as both the distance between the two vehicles and their background concentrations increased. If the height of the ML inlet is lower than 2 m and the ML travels within 20 m behind a SUV and a sedan ahead at 20 km h(-1), the overestimation should be considered by as much as 200 ppb in NOx and 80 ppm in CO2. Following a bus should be avoided if possible, because effect of exhaust plumes from a bus ahead could not be negligible even when the distance between the bus and the ML with the inlet height of 2 m, was more than 40 m. Recommendations are provided to avoid the unintended influence of exhaust plumes from vehicles ahead of the ML during on-road measurement in urban dense traffic conditions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. English ELSEVIER SCI LTD LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION NEAR-WAKE REGION EMISSION FACTORS LOS-ANGELES POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AEROSOL DYNAMICS FLOW STRUCTURES GROUND VEHICLE BLACK CARBON Overestimation of on-road air quality surveying data measured with a mobile laboratory caused by exhaust plumes of a vehicle ahead in dense traffic areas Article 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.08.065 1 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, v.218, pp.1116 - 1127 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 218 1116 1127 scie scopus 000385596000122 2-s2.0-84991661572 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology Article LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION NEAR-WAKE REGION EMISSION FACTORS LOS-ANGELES POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AEROSOL DYNAMICS FLOW STRUCTURES GROUND VEHICLE BLACK CARBON Vehicle exhaust plume On-road air pollution Portable emission monitoring system Mobile laboratory CO2 NOx