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Project Code [2011-AQ-DS-1]
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Project title
Screening tool for assessing deposition of ammonia&dust on sensitive receptors from intensive pig & poultry
Primary Funding Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
Scotland & Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER)
Lead Applicant
Rebecca Williams
Project Abstract
The aim of updating the tool is to provide a robust, user-friendly, desk-based screening tool for:1) Estimating atmospheric concentration and deposition rates associated with emissions of ammonia from intensive pig and poultry units. (The model will also assist with completing the first phase of an Appropriate ssessment as set out within the Habitats Directive, and with the assessment of licence applications.) 2) Estimating long-term atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter (PM10)5at sensitive receptors within the vicinity of intensive pig and poultry units. As with the current SCAIL-Agriculture screening tool, it will focus on the emissions and deposition of ammonia and assess the potential for Critical Load/Level exceedance through the utilisation of UK Critical Load/Level maps and habitat information held within APIS. However, it will also assess the potential impact on ambient dust concentrations (specifically PM10 concentrations6) at nearby receptors, resulting from expansion of existing housing units or building of new housing facilities. This project will utilise the process, interim and final outputs and results from SNIFFER project UKPIR15 to streamline the development process for the revised and expanded AILAgriculture screening tool. This project aims to utilise the approach, meteorological and other data, model, etc., used to develop the SCAIL-Combustion screening tool. As with SCAIL-ombustion, it will utilise oraccess the data housed in APIS and SNHi. It should also utilise/access comparable data from the SNH-equivalent organisations in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The output from the tool will help the tools primary user(environmental regulators) make a decision on whether further, more complex dispersion and 4 Primary particles are particles emitted directly into the atmosphere deposition modelling is needed.
Grant Approved
�22,047.37
Research Hub
Healthy Environment
Research Theme
Environment and Human Health
Initial Projected Completion Date
04/06/2012