New NOx and NO2 vehicle emission curves, and their implications for emissions inventories and air pollution modelling

Stewart, Gregor B.; Dajnak, David; Davison, Jack; Carslaw, David C.; Beddows, Andrew V.; Phantawesak, Napameth; Stettler, Marc E.J.; Hollaway, Michael J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-2696; Beevers, Sean D.. 2024 New NOx and NO2 vehicle emission curves, and their implications for emissions inventories and air pollution modelling. Urban Climate, 57, 102103. 16, pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102103

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Abstract/Summary

Emissions of NOx and primary NO2 from road transport sources are highly influential in NO2 exposure at both local and regional scales; quantifying these accurately is therefore an important but challenging component of emissions inventory and air pollution model development. Results are presented from an urban air pollution model, after creation of new speed-emissions curves for NOx through the combination of available vehicle drive cycles and nearly 500,000 UK-based remote sensing measurements of exhaust emissions. Vehicle power-based relationships are applied to 1 Hz drive cycle datasets, with random sampling of the outputs allowing generation of the new curves. These demonstrate significantly higher emissions than those predicted by existing curves for most Euro VI HGVs, and among successive petrol and diesel passenger cars; this may be partly explained by relatively low UK ambient temperatures, as well as an underestimation of the level of tampering with HGV SCR systems. Implementation of the curves in a detailed emissions inventory for London, UK in 2019 leads to substantially improved air pollution model performance for NOx/NO2; normalised mean bias reduces in magnitude, changing from −0.18 to +0.01 for NOx and −0.12 to +0.01 for NO2. The curves developed are widely applicable, and the novel approach outlined has the potential to improve source apportionment and future model predictions under differing policy scenarios, produce better exposure estimates for health-related studies and revise NOx emissions budgets for compliance with the NEC Directive, all of which are important for the development of mitigation policies.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102103
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pollution (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2212-0955
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	remote sensing, emission factors, urban air pollution
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	29 Aug 2024 10:02 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537941

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