Browsing by Author "Feng, Weihang"

After 2013, the environmental protection department in China has significantly reduced on-road emission through the upgrade of emission standards, the improvement of fuel quality and economic tools. However, the specific effect of the control policies on emission and air quality is still difficult to quantify. This is mainly due to the data shortage on vehicle emission factors and vehicle activities. In this research, we developed the 2008-2018 on-road emissions inventory based on Emission Inventory Preparation Guide (GEI) and existing vehicle activity database. Our estimates suggest that CO and PM2.5 showed a relatively significant decrease, by 66.2% and 58.8%. However, the trend of NOx (5.8%) and NMVOC (-4.8%) was relatively stable. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Sichuan Basin (SCB) regions all showed a uniform trend especially in NOx. For Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the significant decline in NOx might be caused by earlier implementations in emission standard and fuel quality. In addition to this, we designed additional evaporation emission scenarios to verify the application of GEI in quantify emission impact on secondary pollutant (PM2.5 and O3). The results indicate that evaporation emission contributed to Maximum Daily Average 8-hour (MDA8) O3 concentration by about 3.5%, for Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. This value can reach up to 5.9%, 5.3% and 7.3%, but the impact on PM2.5is extremely limited. Our results indicate the feasibility of GEI in improving and lowering the technical barrier of on-road emission inventory establishment at the same time and its further application in quantifying on-road emission contribution to air quality. Besides that, it shows a strong potential in on-road policy environmental assessment and short-term air quality assessment.