Research on Analysis Method of Remote Sensing Results of NO Emission from Diesel Vehicles

Lijun Hao*, Hang Yin, Junfang Wang, Miao Tian, Xiaohu Wang, Yunshan Ge, Yoann Bernard, Åke Sjödin

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Abstract

Remote sensing technology has been used for gasoline vehicle gaseous emissions monitoring for nearly 30 years. However, the application effect of the remote sensing detection of diesel vehicle tailpipe emission concentrations is unsatisfactory. Therefore, several approaches were proposed to analyze the remote sensing results for gaseous exhaust emissions from diesel vehicles, including the concentration ratios of gaseous emission components to carbon dioxide (CO2) and fuel-based emission factors. Based on our experimental results, these two metrics have some high values in low-speed or low-load conditions of vehicles, which introduces uncertainty when evaluating vehicle emission levels. Therefore, an inversion calculation method originally developed for remote sensing light duty diesel vehicle gaseous emissions was used for the remote sensing of nitrogen monoxide (NO) tailpipe concentrations in heavy duty diesel vehicles, and validated by PEMS tested emission results. For the first time, the above three options for evaluating the NOx emission level of diesel vehicles, including the concentration ratio of NO to CO2, the fuel-based NO emission factor and the estimated tailpipe NO emission concentration were investigated, and some influencing factors were also discussed. The remote sensing tailpipe NO emission concentration can be directly used to evaluate diesel vehicle NO emission levels compared with the two other metrics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1100
JournalAtmosphere
Volume13
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

Keywords

  • concentration ratio
  • diesel vehicle
  • fuel based emission factor
  • remote sensing
  • tailpipe emission concentration

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