Public Research Seminar by Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust - Accurate characterization and quantification of emission sources to support evidence-based air pollution control in the GBA
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The emission inventory (EI) is fundamental to develop evidence-base air quality management strategies, formulating greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions to tackle climate change, and conducting human health risk assessment. In order to get a high-quality emission inventory, accurate source characterization and quantification is the key research issues needed to address. In this seminar, methods and approaches for characterizing emission sources, developing high-resolution model-ready EIs and near-real-time EIs using big data, and validating EIs to reduce uncertainty will be summarized and presented. The instrumental development work used to measure and improve local emission factors and source profiles will be briefly introduced. The source emission inventories and their progresses in the PRD or Guangdong will be reviewed. How these emission data are applied to support air quality forecasting, evidence-based air pollution control plans, and emission reduction targets in the GBA will be presented. Finally, a new proposed Total Air Management (TAM) paradigm, its definitions and potentials for new researches and technology innovation will be explored.
Dr. Junyu (Allen) Zheng is presently a professor and vice dean of Environmental and Climate Institute at Jinan University. Prior to his joining in the Jinan Univ., he was an associate professor (2006-2010) and a professor at (2010-2017) the South China University of Technology. He was ever a research scientist at the Atmospheric Modeling Division of the United States Environmental Protection Agency during 2004-2005 and a post-doc at North Carolina State University during 2002-2004. He holds a MS in Environmental Engineering (1996) from Tsinghua University, China, and a PhD (2002) in Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University. From Aug. 2012 to Jan. 2013, he worked as a senior visiting scientist at the MAG group of International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria. He is now the deputy general-secretary of Professional Committee of Ozone Pollution Control, China Society for Environmental Science. Dr. Zheng’s expertise includes method development for dynamic and highly revolved air pollutant emission inventory, instrument development, vehicle emission modeling, and uncertainty analysis in atmospheric transport models. He was the Winner of National Distinguished Young Scientist Fund by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2013, and received 2nd prize of science and technology progress awarded by the State of Council of China in 2015 and 1st prizes by Department of Education of China in 2009 and 2014. he was also the PI of “Co-control of Ozone and PM2.5 pollution in the Pearl River Delta Region”, under the National Key Research and Development Plan.
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