The 10th Asia-Pacific Ecological Industry Forum
Shenyang-Kawasaki Atmospheric Environmental
Monitoring Research Cooperation

Shenyang Environmental Monitoring CenterFebruary 2014

Part 1
Brief Introduction of the Monitoring CenterPart 2
Atmospheric Monitoring and ResearchPart 3
Direction of Atmospheric Environmental Cooperation

Brief introduction of the Monitoring CenterMain Responsibilities
The Shenyang Environmental Monitoring Center was founded in 1975 andaffiliated with the Shenyang Environmental Protection Bureau, which is
responsible for monitoring of water, gas, noise, electromagnetic wave,
radioactivity, biology, ecology, coal, solid wastes, various kinds ofpollutant sources, indoor environment as well as construction materials
and emergency monitoring of environmental pollution accidents. The
center provides evidence for the government to implement environmental
management and construction decisions and comprehensive services forsociety to prevent environmental pollution.
Old address

New address

New environmental
protection buildings

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:
Structure of members
The specialists in the Monitoring Center account for 80.2% who are
specialized in 30 majors including chemical engineering, inorganic
chemistry, organic chemistry, environmental engineering, hydro-geology,geophysics, atmospheric physics, meteorology, medical science, computerscience and so on.

Assistantstation master
Chief engineer

Service Center

Deputy Secretary ofthe Party committee

Financial Affairs Office

Station masterPhysical Monitoring Center

Ecological Remote Sensing
CenterProject Room

Organic Analysis Center

Central Laboratory

Pollutant Source Monitoring
OfficeEnvironmental Monitoring
OfficeCenter For Environmental
Prediction

Technical Services OfficeComprehensive Planning
OfficeChief Engineer‘s Office

Party Committee Office

Station Office

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:

Institutional structure

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main qualifications- National laboratory approved byPeople's Republic of China- Identified measurement unit in
Liaoning Province- Laboratory for national
environmental standard sample's
constant value- Identified agency of Chinese
environmental symbol products test
- Environmental test agency of pollution-free place of origin in Liaoning Province- Environmental test agency of the national production place for green food- Test and technical consultation agency of the national organic food production
place- "Shenyang indoor environmental Monitoring Center" approved by the editorialadvisory board- "Environmental monitoring laboratory" for civil building engineering acceptancegranted by the Construction Department in Liaoning province

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:hardware capabilities
The area of the temporary test office buildings of the Shenyang Environmental
Monitoring Center at present is 6,400 square meters and the total amount of themonitoring analytical facilities reaches more than RMB50 million. The center has
about 600 sets of various kinds of monitoring equipment including Summacanister, gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, liquid color spectrum, andICP-MS as well as 10 environmental monitoring vehicles, 1 emergency pollution
accidents monitoring vehicle and 1 automatic atmospheric monitoring vehicle
respectively at present; which reaches the advanced level of the national keystation.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main jobs
Monitoring on quality of environmental air: there are totally 11 atmosphericautomatic monitoring sub-stations in Shenyang (including the super sub-station)
as well as the central station, with the monitoring items including inhaledparticles, SO2, nitrogen oxide, CO, ozone, greenhouse gases, sand storm,
organics as well as related meteorological parameters and so on; daily forecasts
on environmental quality of air; routine monitoring of rainfall, dust-fall as well as
negative oxygen ion.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main jobs
Quality monitoring of water environment:
Automatic monitoring on quality of Hunhe
River in the jurisdiction of Shenyang, routine
monitoring on main stream of Liaohe Riverand 9 tributaries, main stream of Hunhe Riverand 5 tributaries, Beishahe River, lakes andreservoirs, city drainage canals, city drinking
water as well as underground water.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main jobs
Monitoring on environmental quality of sound: routine
monitoring on environmental noise and traffic noise in thejurisdictional area as well as noise in the functional area.

Brief introduction of Monitoring Center:main jobs
Ecological monitoring: hydrobiontic algae and benthic
animals, fecal coliform bacteria in the jurisdictional area, totalcoli group in waterworks; fecal coliform bacteria in sewage
disposal work.
Developing evaluation on ecological environment situation
based on remote sensing monitoring technology; soil
environment monitoring as well as environment monitoringin rural area.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main jobs
Pollutant source monitoring: supervisory monitoringon wastewater, waste gas as well as key heavy metal
pollutant source enterprises and sewage treatment
plants in the jurisdictional area.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main jobs
Sudden pollution accident emergency monitoring: setting up
scientific and perfect emergency monitoring system, responsible
for emergency monitoring on sudden environment pollution
accidents in the jurisdictional area.

Brief introduction of the Monitoring Center:main achievements
Main achievements since 2006 until present:• "The national environmental science base" granted by the national Ministry ofEnvironmental Protection and the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2010.
• Passed the acceptance of the "national environmental protection atmospheric organic
pollutants monitoring analysis key laboratory" in 2010
• Responsible for the national ozone pilot project, national sand storm pilot project,national green house gases pilot project since 2008
• Revision works of 38 national environmental protection rules and standard methods• National environmental protection public welfare industries research project "Researchon environmental monitoring data quality control technical system"• National environmental protection public welfare industries research project "Researchon atmospheric pollution comprehensive forecasts and evaluation techniques in industrial
accumulation area"• National environmental protection public welfare industries research project "Researchon road traffic noise monitoring and new evaluation methods"• Sub project of the water pollution control and governing of key national scientific project(water project) "Risks evaluation of water environment quality and demonstration of early
warning techniques of Liaohe River in Shenyang"•38 city level research projects including "Research on development of environmental airquality monitoring and forecasts, evaluation and early warning system in Shenyang"

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
execution of new standards
In Feb 29th, 2012, the Environmental Protection Department and theNational Bureau of Quality jointly published the standard ofenvironmental air quality (GB3095-2012) together with the newstandards, and the Environmental Protection Department publishedthe Air Quality Index (AQI) technical rules which regulate therequirements of implementation of new standard by stages.
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Beginning to monitorthe key areas suchas Beijing, Tianjin,
Hebei province,Yangtze River Delta,
Pearl River Delta,
municipalities as wellas provincial capitals
in 2012

Beginning to monitor
113 key
environmental
protection cities andexamples in 2013

Beginning to monitor
in all cities above
prefecture-level in2015

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
implementation of new standards
Differences between newand old standards
New standards GB3095－2012

Old standards GB3095－1996

Environmental air
functional area

Second degree subarea (the industrialarea merged with the second degree area)

Third degree subarea

Changes in
evaluation methods

Air quality index（AQI）

Air pollution index（API）

Increase inevaluation projects

Increased to 6 kinds with the addition of
PM2.5, CO and O3

Only 3 kinds of pollutants including PM10, SO2and NO2

Strictness andaddition of limits ofconcentration for partof pollutants

The annual value of PM10 is limited to 70
microgramme/stere and the annual valueof NO2 is limited to 40 microgramme/stere,added the average limit of concentration of
PM2.5 and average limit of concentration ofozone for 8 hours

The annual value of PM10 is
100microgramme/stere and annual value of NO2
is 80 microgramme/stereEffectiveness of data

20 hours per day and 27 days eachmonth

12 to 18 hours per day and 21 days each month

Analytical method ofpollutants

Updating part of the pollutant analyticalmethod and adding automatic monitoring
and analytical method

No national standard of automatic monitoring

Implementation ofregulation of standard

Key cities that are not up to the standard
shall draw up and implement standard
planning according to the law.

No relevant requirements

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
implementation of new standards
Differences between newand old standards
New standards
Evaluation items

Old standards

Annual concentration
limits（mg/m3）

Evaluation
items

Annual concentration
limits（mg/m3）

PM100.070

PM100.100

SO20.060

SO20.060

NO20.040

NO20.080

PM2.50.075

Daily maximum averageof O3 for 8 hours
Average of O3 for one
hour

0.160

CO average for 24hours

40.200Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
implementation of new standards
AQI Index Grading
Air quality
index

Degrees ofair quality
index

0～50

First
degree51～100

Seconddegree

GoodYellow

101～150

Thirddegree

Slightlypolluted

Orange151～200

FourthdegreeMiddlelevel
pollution

Red

201～300

Fifth
degreeSeriuspollution

Purple>300

Sixth
degreeSeverepollution

Brown

Air quality index
categories and colors
Excellent

Green

Effects on health

Measures suggested

The air quality is satisfactory and Vairous groups can have somebasically no air pollution
normal activities.
The air quality is acceptable but
some pollutants may have some Few sensitive groups shall reducew e a k e f f e c t s o n a v e r y f e w the outdoor activities.
sensitive groups.
Children, the elderly as well as
Symptom for sensitive groups is heart disease and respiratory
slightly worsened and irratation for system patients should reduce
healthy humans
outdoor activities for long time andhigh strength.
Children, the elderly as well as
Further wosen the symptom for heart disease and respiratory
sensitve groups and may have system patients should avoid
effects on heart and respiratory outdoor activities for long time andsystem of healthy peoplehigh strength, common people shall
reduce the outdoor activities.
Symbtom becomes obvious ly The elderly and heart disease andsevere for heart disease and pneumonopathy patients should
pneumonopathy patients, reduction stay indoors and stop outdoor
inendurance
andcommon activities, common people shallsymptom for healthy groups
reduce outdoor activities.
Reduction in endurance for healthy The elderly and patients shall staypeople, obviously strong symptom indoors and avoid physical output,
and some illness appeared in common shall avoid outdoor
advanceactivities.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
implementation of new standards
As one of the 74 key cities to implement the new standards of environmental
air quality at the first stage across the nation, Shenyang officially
implemented the new standards of environmental air quality in 2013. From
Jan. 1, 2013, the 11 automatic monitoring points began to monitor the airquality on total 6 kinds of pollutants including PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO,and O3, and published the results over the Internet to meet the public right toknow and supervision about the environment.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:present situation of environmental air quality
The number of days that met the standards in the year
2013 totals 215 days, which accounts for 58.9% of thetotal days of one year. The chief pollutant is mainly theparticle matter (PM2.5) .

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:environmental air quality forecasts
Using environmental air quality monitoring data and meteorological data, theShenyang Environmental Monitoring Center has established the air quality
forecasts model of Shenyang and use the model for starting forecasts. The
forecast of environmental air quality in the future 24 hours has been
published through various kinds of media such as TV, radio station,
website as well as micro-blog. Based on statistic forecasts model and joint
meteorological forecasts, the center is gradually exploring the developmentof 3-day and 7-day forecasts.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:atmospheric organic key laboratory
In 2010, the Shenyang Environmental Monitoring Center passed theacceptance of the "national environmental protection atmosphericorganic pollutants monitoring analytical key laboratory". According
to the requirements of the national atmospheric organic pollutantsmonitoring analytical key tests, the laboratory shall focus on
application foundation research and basic works in theenvironmental monitoring research area, developing research on
the atmospheric organic pollutants monitoring techniques system;
evaluation index system of atmospheric organic pollutants andorganic pollution evaluation model, method research; research on
environmental air organic pollution situation in typical areas;
research on organic pollution from some typical pollutant sources
such as exhaust from automobiles, petrochemical industries,
pharmacy as well as organic chemical industries.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:atmospheric organic key laboratory
Key research direction at present: to determine the research
direction directed at the specific problems that need to besolved in atmospheric organic pollution environmental
monitoring and management by combining already existing
research foundation based on the research direction in plan:
1. Developing research on atmospheric organic pollution
monitoring analytical techniques;
2. Developing research on atmospheric organic pollutantsmonitoring quality guarantee and quality control system;
3. Developing research on situation of environmental airorganic pollution in typical area.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:atmospheric organic key laboratory
Capacity establishment - atpresent the laboratory has
formed overall analysiscapacities in 6 categories fora total of 157 kinds ofatmospheric organic
pollutants such as VOCs,
aldoketones, PAH,
organochlorine pesticide,
Titanate as well as
polychlorinated biphenyl andso on in environmental air andexhaust gas.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:atmospheric organic key laboratory
Capacity establishment establishing atmosphericorganic automatic
monitoring and earlysystem, including organic
gases monitoring module,
greenhouse gas monitoring
module, routine 5 parts ofenvironmental air
monitoring module, forming
automatic monitoring
capacity about 77 kinds ofpollutants.

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
research achievements
Developing revision projects about 22 atmosphericnational environmental protection rules and standard
methods, in which 9 standards have been publishedby the Environmental Protection Department.
No

Name of projects

Standard
numbers

Publishingtime

1

enviromental air determination of ozone natrium indigotinum
disulfonicum spectrophotography

HJ 504-2009

2009-10-20

2environmental air determination of nitrogen oxide naphthyl
ethylenediamine dihydrochloride spectrophotography

HJ 479-2009

2009-09-27

3

environmental air determination of fluoride membrane sampling
fluorinion ISE method

HJ 480-2009

2009-09-27

4

environmental air determination of fluoride lime filter sampling
fluorinion ISE method

HJ 481-2009

2009-09-27

5

environmental air determination of SO2 formaldehyde absorptionPararosaniline spectrophotography

HJ 482-2009

2009-09-27

6

environmental air determination of SO2 four chloromercuric salt
absorption-Pararosaniline spectrophotography

HJ 483-2009

2009-09-27

7

environmental air and exhaust gas determination of ammonia
nessler reagent spectrophotography

HJ 533-2009

2009-12-31

8environmental air determination of ammonia chloros-orthohydroxybenzoic acid spectrophotography

HJ 534-2009

2009-12-31

9environmental air determination of ozone uv spectrophotometry

HJ 590-2010

2011-01-01

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
research achievements
Shenyang has been responsible for the national ozone pilotproject, national sand storm pilot project, and national
greenhouse gases pilot project since 2008. Shenyang has
formed relatively complete environmental air monitoring,
quality guarantee and analytical system at present. And
Shenyang has accomplished the national environmental
protection public welfare industries special fund project"Research on atmospheric pollution comprehensive forecasts
and evaluation techniques in industrial accumulation area",
and the subject sets the industrial accumulation area inNortheast as the example to develop the research on area
atmospheric pollution comprehensive forecasts. Also
Shenyang has accomplished some city level research such as"Research on development of environmental air quality
monitoring and forecasts, evaluation and early warning
system in Shenyang" and "Research on Shenyang economic
zone environmental air quality forecast integration".

Atmospheric Monitoring and Research:
research achievementsDeveloping Shenyang area-characteristic particle source analysis andresearch on countermeasurs of pollution control .
 Environmental air particle PM2.5 source analysis and researchon countermeasurs of pollution control in Shenyang .

Direction of Atmospheric
Environmental Cooperation
1. Forecast on environmental air quality. We are forecasting theenvironmental air quality with statistics, mainly adopting two models
including linear regression model and weather conditions model tomake forecasts about the air quality. These two models mainly depend
on a large amount of historical data and meteorological data while weare only beginning to monitor the new standard PM2.5 of environmental
air quality and the historical data is only one year available, therefore
the work is just beginning from January 2014.We will begin to develop
the numerical model forecasts the next step and we wish to learn someadvanced experiences.
2. We wish to learn some relevant advanced experiences and techniques
in resource analysis of particles. At present we are developing theanalysis of source of particles with receptor model and the results ofanalysis is the primary situation of pollutants, and we wish to analyze
the secondary transformation of pollutants (PM2.5), accurately
recognize and analyze the contribution value and share rate of various
sources, key industries and sources for environmental air particles andprovide scientific evidence for developing particles pollution control.

We welcome
your valuablecomments!