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Klappentext There is intense international scientific and media focus on the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northern Alberta, Canada. The AOSR contains, after Saudi Arabia, the second largest known reserves of oil in the world. The pace of industrial development in the region is accelerating rapidly. Today, some 1.4 million barrels per day of oil are produced; by 2025, this is expected to rise to 4 million barrels per day. In the Oil Sands, a heavy petroleum product called bitumen is mixed with sand, clay and water. Oil is derived from bitumen after upgrading. The scale of the industrial processes is extremely large. The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association science-based air quality measurement and environmental monitoring programs have completed measurements along the industrial source to ecological sink pathways. Industry approvals to operate and air quality regulation are dependent upon the best available scientific knowledge, commonly presented in public forums such as EIAs (Environmental Impact Assessments). The chapters comprising this book bring improved and often new scientific information into the public domain. Many of the chapters will impact how airshed (air quality on a regional scale) management and planning are carried out. In addition, many new techniques for calculating emission factors and tracing the fate of emissions are discussed in the context of regulatory issues. Zusammenfassung The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern Alberta is the largest of the three oil sands deposits. This book contains 19 chapters ranging from a global perspective of energy production, measurement methodologies and behavior of various air pollutants during fossil fuel production in a boreal forest ecosystem. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Energy Production: A Global Perspective 2. Energy Developments in the Alberta Oil Sands 3. Energy and Environment: Toward Achieving the Balance in Alberta 4. Air Quality in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 5. Development and Application of Statistical Approaches for Reducing Uncertainty in Ambient Air Quality Data, 6. Co-Measurement of Volatile Organic and Sulphur Compounds in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region by Dual Detector Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography (PFGC) 7. Overview of Real-World Emission Characterization Methods 8. Measurement of Real-World Stack Emissions with a Dilution Sampling System 9. Applying the Forest Health Approach to Monitoring a Boreal Ecosystem in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 10. Ecological Analogues for Bio-monitoring Industrial Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 11. Tracing Industrial Nitrogen and Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region using Stable Isotopes 12. Air Quality Modeling in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 13. WBEA Receptor Modeling Study in the Athabasca Oil Sands: An Introduction 14. Method for Extraction and Multi-element Analysis of the Epiphytic Lichen Hypogymnia physodes from the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 15. Coupling Lead Isotopes and Element Concentrations in Epiphytic Lichens to Track Sources of Air Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 16. Mercury Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Epiphytic Tree Lichens in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 17. Measurement of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Epiphytic Lichens for Receptor Modeling in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR): A Pilot Study 18. Receptor Modeling of Epiphytic Lichens to Elucidate the Sources and Spatial Distribution of Inorganic Air Pollution in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, 19. Concluding Remarks...
List of contents
1. Energy Production: A Global Perspective
2. Energy Developments in the Alberta Oil Sands
3. Energy and Environment: Toward Achieving the Balance in Alberta
4. Air Quality in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
5. Development and Application of Statistical Approaches for Reducing Uncertainty in Ambient Air Quality Data,
6. Co-Measurement of Volatile Organic and Sulphur Compounds in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region by Dual Detector Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography (PFGC)
7. Overview of Real-World Emission Characterization Methods
8. Measurement of Real-World Stack Emissions with a Dilution Sampling System
9. Applying the Forest Health Approach to Monitoring a Boreal Ecosystem in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
10. Ecological Analogues for Bio-monitoring Industrial Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
11. Tracing Industrial Nitrogen and Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region using Stable Isotopes
12. Air Quality Modeling in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
13. WBEA Receptor Modeling Study in the Athabasca Oil Sands: An Introduction
14. Method for Extraction and Multi-element Analysis of the Epiphytic Lichen Hypogymnia physodes from the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
15. Coupling Lead Isotopes and Element Concentrations in Epiphytic Lichens to Track Sources of Air Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
16. Mercury Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Epiphytic Tree Lichens in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
17. Measurement of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Epiphytic Lichens for Receptor Modeling in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR): A Pilot Study
18. Receptor Modeling of Epiphytic Lichens to Elucidate the Sources and Spatial Distribution of Inorganic Air Pollution in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region,
19. Concluding Remarks
Report
"This volume contains papers presented at an eponymous international symposium held in conjunction with the 43rd International Air Pollution Workshop (May 2011), in Alberta, Canada. These papers, along with other included material, come from projects undertaken by the Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA), which has, since 2008, undertaken intense study of environmental monitoring activities." --Reference and Research Book News, October 2013
