Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling on Windows Platforms

This paper presents a developed professional software in engineering, made by using up-to-date application software technology, namely Air-1.0, for operating microcomputers under Window System. The Software is of great operational and of fast execution, adopting completely Graphical User Interface (GUI) technique. The model, used by Air-1.0 software for simulating atmospheric pollutant dispersion, is based on the formulations of Gauss and of Holland, taking into account different environmental characteristics and conditions of source emissions with suitable hypotheses. By using this informatics system relative to air quality, it is possible to determine various useful engineering parameters, such as permitted maximum pollutant load, which can be emitted from a chimney; pollutant concentration to a certain distance away from the emitting point; minimal inner diameter and lowest height of the chimney; and efficiency required by control equipments, and so on. With the help of this software, the user can also determine the size of a sanitary protection strip, related to air pollution.