5.4 Great Porto Area
The Great Porto Area is a Portuguese NUTS3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units
for Statistics) sub region involving 11 municipalities. It covers a total area of
1024 km
2 with a total population of more than 1.2 million inhabitants. Figure 5.9
shows the location of the Greater Porto Area in Portugal and in its northern region.
This region of Portugal is one of the several EU zones that had to develop and
implement an air quality plan (AQP) to reduce PM10. AQP was initially designed
using a scenario approach considering the implementation of an a priori defined set
of abatement measures (Borrego et al. 2011, 2012). This allowed to identify the
most relevant emission sectors: industrial combustion, residential combustion and
road traffic.
5.4.1 Proposed Abatement Measures
A list of possible abatement measures, including costs and emissions effects was
compiled using the GAINS database for Portugal. This database includes: activity
details (unabated emission factor, activity level…) and technology details (removal
efficiency, CLE and potential application rate, unit cost) for the years 2010, 2015,
2020 and 2025. The reference scenario for March 2013 was considered and 103
«triplets» (sector-activity-technology) were associated to the emission inventory.
They are related to: Combustion in energy and transformation industries (SNAP 1)
(20 measures); Non-industrial combustion (SNAP 2) (4 measures); Combustion in
manufacturing industry (SNAP 3) (23 measures); Production processes (SNAP 4)
(7 measures); Solvent and other product use (SNAP 6) (10 measures); Road
Transport (SNAP 7) (25 measures); Other mobile sources and machinery (SNAP 8)
(14 measures). They are basically all end-of-pipe measures. Technologies for food
and drink industry production processes and for construction activities were not
included as they are not present in the GAINS database.
Fig. 5.9 Location of the
Great Porto area in Portugal
and model grid used
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The Great Porto Area is a Portuguese NUTS3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units
for Statistics) sub region involving 11 municipalities. It covers a total area of
1024 km
2 with a total population of more than 1.2 million inhabitants. Figure 5.9
shows the location of the Greater Porto Area in Portugal and in its northern region.
This region of Portugal is one of the several EU zones that had to develop and
implement an air quality plan (AQP) to reduce PM10. AQP was initially designed
using a scenario approach considering the implementation of an a priori defined set
of abatement measures (Borrego et al. 2011, 2012). This allowed to identify the
most relevant emission sectors: industrial combustion, residential combustion and
road traffic.
5.4.1 Proposed Abatement Measures
A list of possible abatement measures, including costs and emissions effects was
compiled using the GAINS database for Portugal. This database includes: activity
details (unabated emission factor, activity level…) and technology details (removal
efficiency, CLE and potential application rate, unit cost) for the years 2010, 2015,
2020 and 2025. The reference scenario for March 2013 was considered and 103
«triplets» (sector-activity-technology) were associated to the emission inventory.
They are related to: Combustion in energy and transformation industries (SNAP 1)
(20 measures); Non-industrial combustion (SNAP 2) (4 measures); Combustion in
manufacturing industry (SNAP 3) (23 measures); Production processes (SNAP 4)
(7 measures); Solvent and other product use (SNAP 6) (10 measures); Road
Transport (SNAP 7) (25 measures); Other mobile sources and machinery (SNAP 8)
(14 measures). They are basically all end-of-pipe measures. Technologies for food
and drink industry production processes and for construction activities were not
included as they are not present in the GAINS database.
Fig. 5.9 Location of the
Great Porto area in Portugal
and model grid used
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C. Carnevale et al.