Application of a small unmanned aerial system to measure ammonia emissions from a pilot amine-co2 capture system

Travis J. Schuyler; Bradley Irvin; Keemia Abad; Jesse G. Thompson; Kunlei Liu; Marcelo I. Guzman

doi:10.3390/s20236974

Application of a small unmanned aerial system to measure ammonia emissions from a pilot amine-co₂ capture system

Travis J. Schuyler, Bradley Irvin, Keemia Abad, Jesse G. Thompson, Kunlei Liu, Marcelo I. Guzman

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Abstract

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 (NH₃) gas from the exit stack a 0.1 MWth pilot-scale carbon capture system (CCS) employing a 5 M monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent to scrub CO₂ 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 NH₃ 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.

Original language	English
Article number	6974
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume	20
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236974
State	Published - Dec 1 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
NASA funding through an R3 EPSCoR award (80NSSC19M0032) and a Kentucky Space Grant Graduate Fellowship award (NNX15AR69H) provided partial support for this research. The APC was funded by MDPI Sensors.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Keywords

Amine scrubbing
Ammonia emission
Coal
Flue gas
Monoethanolamine
Post-combustion CO capture
UAS
UAV
Unmanned

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biochemistry
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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