Effectiveness evaluation of water-sprinkling in controlling urban fugitive road dust based on TRAKER method: A case study in Baoding, China
Jian Gao , Yuefan Zhang , Jianhua Chen , Dong Li , Shuang Zhu
DOI:10.1016/j.jes.2021.12.005
Received July 06, 2021,Revised , Accepted December 09, 2021, Available online December 21, 2021
Volume 35,2023,Pages 735-744
Fugitive road dust (FRD) contributes a great deal to urban rainwater and air pollution and is commonly controlled by water-sprinkling in most Chinese cities. However, there is a lack of information on its effectiveness. We used the Testing Re-entrained Aerosol Kinetic Emissions from Roads (TRAKER) method to monitor different types of roads in Baoding city before and within 1 hr after water-sprinkling and obtained the road dirtiness index (a) and PM concentration in the road environment (), to evaluate the removal efficiency for PM deposited on the road surface () and the reduction efficiency for the PM concentration in the road environment (). The results give that the for three types of roads is ranked: branch road (87%-–100%) > major arterial road (80%-83%) > minor arterial road (68%-77%), and the ranked: minor arterial road (70%) > branch road (46%-58%) > major arterial road (37%-53%). The and varied non-linearly with time and presented a quadratic curve. The average effective control time (> 0) was 62 min on the major and minor arterial roads, and much longer than 1 hr on branch roads. The values diminished completely by 72 min on average from the end of sprinkling for the three types of roads. Water-sprinkling can remove PM10 particles from the road surface and reduce their concentration in the road environment more thoroughly than PM2.5. Our findings could be helpful for controlling urban FRD emissions more efficiently and precisely.
