A Preliminary Assessment of Dispersion Level of SO2 in Fars Industrial Region, South of Iran, by GIS
Table 1
Sampling locations in ten different stations in the industrial regions of Zarghan, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates, and reasons for the selection of that location.
No.
Sampling stations
UTM coordinates
Reasons for selection
1
Municipality
32995362.28MN 665921.42ME
Municipality location is a suitable point inside Zarghan residential area in mesh boundary.
2
Basij Sq.
3294970.72MN 666140.93ME
This point is a boundary residential location suitable for examining air pollution due to the SO2 of the highway.
3
Department of education
3295352.39MN 666550.56ME
This is one of the town central points near a hill and suitable to examine air inversion effects.
4
Old cemetery
3294683.63MN 667416.25ME
This point is located at southeast of the town on the border line near a hill.
5
Old Sq. (Emam Khomeini Sq.)
3294978.72MN 666740.94ME
Most of the air pollution in this area is due to heavy terrific jam than the other sources of contamination.
6
End point of town
3295906.31MN 666331.92ME
This residential point is located at the end of the town and the farthest to the oil refinery.
7
Near way Sq.
3291485.09MN 663854.37ME
This is the first urban area after oil refinery, located between Zarghan and the oil refinery.
8
Beginning of street
3293675.11MN 664173.69MN
This is a cross-point of the highway and Zarghan located 60 meters from Shiraz-Tehran highway.
9
Oil refinery
3295362.28MN 6659211.42ME
Oil refinery is a major source of SO2. Its distances from nearest residential points in towns are 6155 m and 2668 m, respectively.
10
Industrial park
3292829.20MN 6634148.2ME
This point was selected to examine the pollution roles of the oil refinery and industrial park.