Estimation of toxic substance release
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1. A method of estimating an amount of a substance being released into a surrounding medium thereby creating a plume, comprising:
- making multiple concentration measurements of the substance at multiple locations and at multiple times;
estimating a release rate of the substance released as a function of said multiple concentration measurements at said locations and said times of the measurements.
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Abstract
A system and method for estimating an amount of substance released into an ambient thereby creating a plume includes at one sensor adapted to be positioned at the plume and making multiple concentration measurements of the released substance at multiple times. A computer-based analyzer system is programmed with an algorithm. The analyzer receives concentration measurements from the at least one sensor and the algorithm generates an estimate of amount of substance released as a function of the multiple concentration measurements and the time of the measurements.
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1. A method of estimating an amount of a substance being released into a surrounding medium thereby creating a plume, comprising:
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making multiple concentration measurements of the substance at multiple locations and at multiple times;
estimating a release rate of the substance released as a function of said multiple concentration measurements at said locations and said times of the measurements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of estimating an amount of a substance being released into a surrounding medium thereby creating a plume, comprising:
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making multiple concentration measurements of the substance at multiple different locations and at multiple times;
estimating the amount of the substance released as a function of said multiple concentration measurements at said locations and times of the measurements; and
wherein said estimating includes adjusting said measurements for travel time of the plume.
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21. A substance release rate estimation system for estimating an amount of substance released from a plume created by the release, comprising:
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at least one sensor adapted to be positioned at the plume, said at least one sensor measuring concentration of the released substance;
an atmospheric conditions input adapted to inputting atmospheric conditions of the surrounding medium into which the substance was released; and
a computer-based analyzer being programmed with an algorithm, said analyzer receiving multiple concentration measurements from said at least one sensor at multiple times and atmospheric conditions from said atmospheric conditions input, said algorithm generating an estimate of a substance release rate from said concentration measurements and said atmospheric conditions. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A substance release estimation system for estimating an amount of released substance, the release of which creates a plume, comprising:
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a plurality of sensors adapted to be positioned at multiple different locations with respect to plume and make multiple concentration measurements of the released substance at the different locations at multiple times; and
a computer-based analyzer being programmed with an algorithm, said analyzer receiving concentration measurements from said plurality of sensors, said algorithm generating an estimate of a release rate of substance released from said concentration measurements. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A substance release estimation system for estimating an amount of released substance, the release of which creates a plume, comprising:
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at least one sensor adapted to be positioned at a plume and make multiple concentration measurements of the released substance at multiple times; and
a computer-based analyzer being programmed with an algorithm, said analyzer receiving concentration measurements from said at least one sensor, said algorithm generating an estimate of amount of substance released from said concentration measurements;
wherein multiple measurements are made in each of multiple different locations and the amount of the substance released is estimated as a function of said multiple concentration measurements at each of said locations and times of the measurements;
wherein said estimates are adjusted for travel time of the plume.
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