Impact of Ship Emissions on Air Quality in the Greater Bay Area in China under the Latest Global Marine Fuel Regulation

As the main anthropogenic source in open seas and coastal areas, ship emissions impact the climate, air quality, and human health. The latest marine fuel regulation with a sulfur content limit of 0.5% went into effect globally on January 1, 2020. Investigations of ship emissions after fuel switching are necessary. In this study, online field measurements at an urban coastal site and modeling simulations were conducted to detect the impact of ship emissions on air quality in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China under new fuel regulation. By utilizing a high mass-resolution single particle mass spectrometer, the vanadium(V) signal was critically identified and was taken as a robust indicator for ship-emitted particles (with relative peak area > 0.1). The considerable number fractions of high-V particles (up to 30-40% during ship plumes) indicated that heavy fuel oils via simple desulfurization or blending processes with low-sulfur fuels were extensively used in the GBA to meet the global 0.5% sulfur cap. Our results showed that ship-emitted particulate matter and NOx contributed up to 21.4% and 39.5% to the ambient, respectively, in the summertime, significantly affecting the air quality in the GBA. The sea-land breeze circulation also played an important role in the transport pattern of ship-emitted pollutants in the GBA.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

Enthalten in:

Environmental science & technology - 57(2023), 33 vom: 22. Aug., Seite 12341-12350

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhai, Jinghao [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Guangyuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Shao [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yupeng [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Shenglan [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Chunbo [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Baohua [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yaling [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yixiang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Antai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yujie [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Tzung-May [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Huizhong [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Jianhuai [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Shu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

70FD1KFU70
Air Pollutants
Journal Article
Marine fuel oil
Marine fuel regulation
NOx
Particulate Matter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Ship emissions
Sulfur
Vanadium
Vehicle Emissions

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Date Completed 23.08.2023

Date Revised 24.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.est.3c03950

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360521738