scholarly journals A method to dynamically constrain black carbon aerosol sources with online monitored potassium

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huang Zheng ◽  
Shaofei Kong ◽  
Nan Chen ◽  
Zewei Fan ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Carbon ◽  
Source Identification ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Pearson Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Fossil Fuel Combustion ◽  
Wood Burning ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Black Carbon Aerosol ◽  
Aerosol Sources

AbstractThe result of Aethalometer model to black carbon (BC) source apportionment is highly determined by the absorption Ångström exponent (α) of aerosols from fossil fuel combustion (αff) and wood burning (αwb). A method using hourly measured potassium to calculate the αff and αwb values was developed in this study. Results showed that the optimal αff and αwb were 1.09 and 1.79 for the whole dataset. The optimal α values in the diurnal resolution were also calculated with αff and αwb varied in 1.02 –1.19 and 1.71–1.90, respectively. Using the dynamic α values, the Pearson correlation coefficient between BC and potassium from wood burning substantially improved compared to the results derived from the fixed α values. The method developed in this study is expected to provide more reasonable BC source identification results, which are helpful for air quality, climate, and human health modeling studies.

scholarly journals Assessment of wood burning versus fossil fuel contribution to wintertime black carbon and carbon monoxide concentrations in Athens, Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 10219-10236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athina-Cerise Kalogridis ◽  
Stergios Vratolis ◽  
Eleni Liakakou ◽  
Evangelos Gerasopoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Mihalopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Black Carbon ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Monitoring Site ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Urban Background ◽  
Wood Burning ◽  
Ambient Concentrations ◽  
Co Concentrations

Abstract. The scope of this study was to estimate the contribution of fossil fuel and wood burning combustion to black carbon (BC) and carbon monoxide (CO) during wintertime, in Athens. For that purpose, in situ measurements of equivalent black carbon (eBC) and CO were simultaneously conducted in a suburban and an urban background monitoring site in Athens during the 3 months of winter 2014–2015. For the deconvolution of eBC into eBC emitted from fossil fuel (BCff) and wood burning (BCwb), a method based on the spectral dependency of the absorption of pure black carbon and brown carbon was used. Thereafter, BCwb and BCff estimated fractions were used along with measured CO concentrations in a multiple regression analysis, in order to quantify the contribution of each one of the combustion sources to the ambient CO levels. For a comparative analysis of the results, we additionally estimated the wood burning and fossil fuel contribution to CO, calculated on the basis of their CO ∕ NOx emission ratios. The results indicate that during wintertime BC and CO are mainly emitted by local sources within the Athens Metropolitan Area (AMA). Fossil fuel combustion, mainly from road traffic, is found to be the major contributor to both eBC in PM2.5 and CO ambient concentrations in AMA. However, wintertime wood burning makes a significant contribution to the observed eBC (of about 30 %) and CO concentrations (on average, 11 and 16 % of total CO in the suburban and urban background sites respectively). Both BC and CO from biomass burning (BCwb and COwb, respectively) present a clear diurnal pattern, with the highest concentrations during night-time, supporting the theory of local domestic heating being their main source.

Year-long variability of the fossil fuel and wood burning black carbon components at a rural site in southern Delhi outskirts

2019 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.C. Dumka ◽  
D.G. Kaskaoutis ◽  
P.C.S. Devara ◽  
R. Kumar ◽  
S. Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Carbon ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Rural Site ◽  
Wood Burning

scholarly journals Inter-comparison of source apportionment models for the estimation of wood burning aerosols during wintertime in an Alpine city (Grenoble, France)

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 559-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Favez ◽  
I. El Haddad ◽  
C. Piot ◽  
A. Boréave ◽  
E. Abidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Source Apportionment ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Organic Aerosols ◽  
Receptor Site ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Aerosol Mass ◽  
Wood Burning ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Fossil Fuel Emissions

Abstract. The emission of organic aerosols (OA) in the ambient air by residential wood burning is nowadays a subject of great scientific concern and a growing number of studies aim at apportioning the influence of such emissions on urban air quality. In the present study, results obtained using two commonly-used source apportionment models, i.e., Chemical Mass Balance (CMB, performed with off-line filter measurements) and Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF, applied to aerosol mass spectrometer measurements), as well as using the recently-proposed aethalometer model (based on the measurement of the aerosol light absorption at different wavelengths) are inter-compared. This work is performed using field data obtained during the winter season (14 to 30 January 2009) at an urban background site of a French Alpine city (Grenoble). Converging results from the different models indicate a major contribution of wood burning organic aerosols (OMwb) to the organic fraction, with mean OMwb contributions to total OA of about 67%, 60% and 38% for the CMB, the aethalometer and the AMS-PMF models, respectively. Quantitative discrepancies might notably be due to the overestimation of OMwb calculated by the CMB due to the loss of semi-volatile compounds from sources to receptor site, as well as to the accounting of oxidized primary wood burning organic (OPOAwb) aerosols within the Oxygenated Organic Aerosol (OOA) PMF-factor. This OOA factor accounts on average for about 50% of total OM, while non-combustion sources contribute to about 25% and 28% of total OM according to the CMB and aethalometer models, respectively. Each model suggests a mean contribution of fossil fuel emissions to total OM of about 10%. A good agreement is also obtained for the source apportionment of elemental carbon (EC) by both the CMB and aethalometer models, with fossil fuel emissions representing on average more than 80% of total EC.

scholarly journals Source apportionment of black carbon aerosols from light absorption observation and source-oriented modeling: an implication in a coastal city in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 14419-14435
Author(s):  
Junjun Deng ◽  
Hao Guo ◽  
Hongliang Zhang ◽  
Jialei Zhu ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Black Carbon ◽  
Source Apportionment ◽  
Biomass Burning ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Central China ◽  
Fossil Fuel Combustion ◽  
East Central ◽  
Coastal City

Abstract. Black carbon (BC) is the most important light-absorbing aerosol in the atmosphere. However, sources of atmospheric BC aerosols are largely uncertain, making it difficult to assess its influence on radiative forcing and climate change. In this study, year-round light-absorption observations were conducted during 2014 using an aethalometer in Xiamen, a coastal city in Southeast China. Source apportionment of BC was performed and temporal variations in BC sources were characterized based on both light absorption measurements and a source-oriented air quality model. The annual average concentrations of BC from fossil fuel (BCff) and biomass burning (BCbb) by the aethalometer method were 2932 ± 1444 ng m−3 and 1340 ± 542 ng m−3, contributing 66.7 % and 33.3 % to total BC, respectively. A sensitivity analysis was performed with different absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) values of fossil fuel combustion (αff) and biomass burning (αbb), suggesting that the aethalometer method was more sensitive to changes in αbb than αff. BCbb contribution exhibited a clear diurnal cycle, with the highest level (37.9 %) in the evening rush hour and a seasonal pattern with the maximum (39.9 %) in winter. Conditional probability function (CPF) analysis revealed the large biomass-burning contributions were accompanied by east-northeasterly and northerly winds. Backward trajectory indicated that air masses from North and East–Central China were associated with larger biomass-burning contributions. Potential source contribution function (PSCF) and concentration-weighted trajectory (CWT) suggested that North and East–Central China and Southeast Asia were potential sources of both BCff and BCbb. The source-oriented modeling results showed that transportation, residential and open biomass burning accounting for 45.3 %, 30.1 % and 17.6 % were the major BC sources. Among the three fuel catalogs, liquid fossil fuel (46.5 %) was the largest source, followed by biomass burning (32.6 %) and coal combustion (20.9 %). Source contributions of fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning identified by the source-oriented model were 67.4 % and 32.6 %, respectively, close to those obtained by the aethalometer method. The findings provide solid support for controlling fossil fuel sources to limit the impacts of BC on climate change and environmental degradation in the relatively clean region in China.

Investigation on semi-direct and indirect climate effects of fossil fuel black carbon aerosol over China

2013 ◽  
Vol 114 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 651-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingliang Zhuang ◽  
Qian Liu ◽  
Tijian Wang ◽  
Changqin Yin ◽  
Shu Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Carbon ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Climate Effects ◽  
Black Carbon Aerosol

Investigation on the direct radiative effect of fossil fuel black-carbon aerosol over China

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingliang Zhuang ◽  
Fei Jiang ◽  
Tijian Wang ◽  
Shu Li ◽  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Black Carbon ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Radiative Effect ◽  
Black Carbon Aerosol
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