STUDY OF WIND PERMANENCE AT THE LOCATION OF THE JURAGUÁ NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Abstracts

Given the importance of the knowledge of wind behavior so it can be applied to harmful substances transport a study is made based on the permanence defined as the amount of consecutive hours in which the value of some variable remains within certain limits. The study is applied to three stations surrounding the Juraguá Nuclear power plant and characteristic charts of wind direction and speed classes versus hours of the day are obtained so zones where pollutant concentration may raise above permissible levels can be determined. Best fitting equations of frequency distribution of classes versus hours of permanence for all directions and speed classes are also presented as well as charts of hours of permanence versus direction and exit of calm speed classes as a case of particular interest. It' s obtained that the greatest frequency of occurrences is between 1 and 2 hours of permanence for directions ENE and ESE and speed classes of 1 to 15 km/h, it was also obtained that ENE and 1 to 10 km/h are the preferred directions and speed classes for calm exit. Comparisons were made with results obtained for Casablanca station.

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