Air pollution and air quality state in an Italian National Interest Priority Site. Part 1: The emission inventory

In Campania region, southern Italy, a National Interest Priority Sites (NIPS) was identified: “Litorale Domitio-Agro Aversano” NIPS L.426/98, that includes a large part of the polluted agricultural land, belonging to more than 61 municipalities in the Naples and Caserta provinces. This paper represents a synthesis of a study developed for a LIFE project (LIFE11/ENV/IT/275– ECOREMED): “Implementation of Eco-Compatible Protocols for Agricultural Soil Remediation in Litorale Domizio-Agro Aversano NIPS”. As well known, the pollutants of the air may have an impact on the soil pollution; the contribution of the paper to this LIFE project is to provide the environmental characterization of the area, estimating the total annual emissions of the main air pollutants (CO, VOC, NOX and PM10) in the area under investigation, with municipal spatial disaggregation. The amounts of air pollutants emitted from various sources in this area were obtained through direct and continuous measures for the principal industrial systems, while for diffused sources the emissions were estimated on the basis of opportune activity indicators and fixed emission factors concerning specific emissive activities.