Appendix 3.7 Detailed Calculation of In-Tunnel Air Quality
for the Full Enclosure at Castle Peak Road viaduct
- Normal speed
Tunnel Parameter
Tunnel length (m), L = 175
Tunnel height (m), H = 5.5
Tunnel width (m), W = 20
Tunnel size (m2), At = H * W
110
Equivalent diameter (m), dt = (4*At/p)^0.5
11.83455
Effective length of the tunnel (m), Le = L + 2*3*dt
246.0073
Emission Data
Traffic Breakdown (%)
Traffic flow (veh/hr) Petrol L.Diesel H.Diesel
Tunnel traffic 2410 43 32 25
Q (veh/hr) 1030 781 600
Petrol L.Diesel H.Diesel
Emission Factor (g/km) - EURO3 0.71 1.54 6.8
Weighted NOX E.F. (g/km/veh) = 2.494227
NO2 emission factor per unit length (g/m/s), w = 0.000334
Vehicle Data
Nominal dimensions of vehicles are given in Transport Planning and Design Manual, Vol. 2 as:
W H L
Pertol 1.7 1.5 4.6
L.Diesel 2.1 1.6 5.2
H.Diesel 2.5 4.6 16
HGV
Nominal cross-sectional area (m2) = (1.7*1.5*(0.43)+(2.5*4.6*0.25)+(2.1*1.6*0.32)
= 5.039427
Number of lanes per direction, nl = 2
Equivalent cross-sectional area for each direction (m2), Av = 10.07885
Equivalent diameter of vehicle (m), dv = (4*Av/p)^0.5
= 3.582291
Traffic density (traffic flow /s), N = 0.669444
Average vehicle speed (m/s), v = 70 km/hr
= 19.44444
Head to head distance on a lane (m), l = 2*nl*v/N
= 116.1826
Diffusion Parameters
Reynolds number, Re = (v*dv)/s where s = 15.6*10^-6
= 4465106
According to Figure 16 (Ohashi and Koso)
Since l / dt = 9.81724
D / (N * dt^2 * Re^0.13) = 0.4
Longitudinal
diffusion coefficient (m2/s) , D = 0.4 * (N * dt^2 * Re^0.13)
= 274.5085
Maximum Concentration of NO2
Cmax (µg/m3) = w * Le^2 / (8 * D * At)
(without background) = 83.66387