Data for Measurement report: Air pollution emission factors of inland river ships under compliance with the 10 parts per million limit for sulfur content in fuel

Since July 1, 2019, China’s domestic diesel fuel has been limited to 10 ppm of sulfur. Hence, to explore the applicability of the “sniffer” method and the distribution and level of inland river ships (IRSs) emission factors (EFs) under this limitation, we installed “sniffer” monitoring equipment, from August 2020 to June 2022, at the Gezhou Dam of the Yangtze River in China and monitored emissions from 8,238 IRSs in total passing through the lock. We partnered with the maritime department to select 100 ships passing through the lock to extract fuel oilsamples for direct fuel sulfur content detection, which determined the true fuel sulfur content of the passing ships. fuel sulfur content.

The “sniffer” monitoring equipment included SO₂, CO₂, NO, and NO₂ gas sensors, PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ particulate matter sensors, as well as wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, and pressure sensors.