Estimation of toxic substance release

摘要

A system and method for estimating an amount of substance released into an ambient thereby creating a plume includes at least one sensor adapted to be positioned at the plume and making multiple concentration measurements of the released substance at multiple times. A computer-based analyzer system is programmed with an algorithm. The analyzer receives concentration measurements from the at least one sensor and the algorithm generates an estimate of amount of substance released as a function of the multiple concentration measurements and the time of the measurements.