Description : Dhanbad, the coal capital of India, is a rapidly growing urban center. There has been an increasing trend of population growth since the early 2006, along with the process of industrialization and motorization. The combustion of fuel by vehicles and mining industries are producing significant to condemnable air pollution load. The impact of SPM and PM10 emissions resulting from various air pollution sources in mining complex, industries, and vehicles, was estimated using the AMS/EPA Regulatory Model (AERMOD). It is a fairly recent and promising model for estimating concentrations of air pollutants, SPM and PM10 concentrations from mining, industries and vehicular was found to be 73, 20 and 7% respectively. Further statistical analysis was carried out to evaluate the model performance by comparing measured and predicted SPM/PM10 concentrations. The model performance was found good with an accuracy of about 64.9%.
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