Abstract:
Crop residue open burning (CROB) is an important emission source in China. Hebei is a major agricultural province, and it is of great significance to study its emission characteristics and impacts on the air quality of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region. Based on the bottom-up method, the high temporal (day) and spatial (1 km×1 km) emission inventory of CROB in Hebei was developed in 2014, and the spatial-temporal characteristics were further analyzed. Furthermore, based on the emission inventory, fire spots data and WRF-CAMx-PSAT model, the impacts of CROB emissions on the air quality of BTH region was studied and analyzed of June and October. Results show that the emissions of SO
2, NO
x, PM
10, PM
2.5, NMVOC, NH
3, CO, EC, OC, CO
2 and CH
4 from CROB in Hebei in 2014 were 0.3×10
4, 1.9×10
4, 5.1×10
4, 5.0×10
4, 4.6×10
4, 0.3×10
4, 27.3×10
4, 0.2×10
4, 2.1×10
4, 685.3×10
4 and 2.0×10
4 t, respectively. Corn and wheat were primary contributors to the emission, and the emission fraction was 46.6%-71.4% and 20.5%-47.8%, respectively. Two monthly emission peaks were found in June and October, and the emission in June was the highest among all the year, accounting for 26.9% of the total emission. Daily emissions fluctuated greatly, and the top value happened in the end of June (0.3×10
4 t) and early November (0.2×10
4 t). In June and October, the average contribution ratios of CROB emissions to atmospheric PM
2.5, EC, SO
2 and NO
2 concentrations in the BTH region were 4.2% and 5.5%, 2.6% and 2.8%, 0.4% and 0.5%, and 2.5% and 1.9%, respectively. Except NO
2, the contribution ratios of other pollutants in October were all higher than those in June. Affected by the characteristics of straw burning, the daily-scale contribution showed obvious fluctuation characteristics. The highest contributions from the emission of CROB in Hebei to the daily PM
2.5 concentration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei can reach 25.7%, 23.1% and 21.0%, respectively.