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2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Arto Heitto ◽  
Kari Lehtinen ◽  
Tuukka Petäjä ◽  
Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker ◽  
Joel A. Thornton ◽  
...  

Abstract. The rate at which freshly formed secondary aerosol particles grow is an important factor in determining their climate impacts. The growth rate of atmospheric nanoparticles may be affected by particle-phase oligomerization and decomposition of condensing organic molecules. We used the Model for Oligomerization and Decomposition in Nanoparticle Growth (MODNAG) to investigate the potential atmospheric significance of these effects. This was done by conducting multiple simulations with varying reaction-related parameters (volatilities of the involved compounds and reaction rates) using both artificial and ambient measured gas-phase concentrations of organic vapors to define the condensing vapors. While our study does not aim at providing information on any specific reaction, our results indicate that particle-phase reactions have significant potential to affect the nanoparticle growth. In simulations in which one-third of a volatility basis set bin was allowed to go through particle-phase reactions, the maximum increase in growth rates was 71 % and the decrease 26 % compared to the base case in which no particle-phase reactions were assumed to take place. These results highlight the importance of investigating and increasing our understanding of particle-phase reactions.


Author(s):  
Никита Александрович Клычков ◽  
Вячеслав Владимирович Симаков ◽  
Илья Владимирович Синёв ◽  
Дмитрий Александрович Тимошенко

Исследовано влияние паров органических веществ (изопропанола, этанола и ацетона) различной концентрации на отклик сенсоров газа на основе наноструктурированных пленок диоксида олова, синтезированных золь-гель методом. Экспериментально установлено, что напуск газовых проб, содержащих пары органических веществ, приводит к увеличению проводимости наноструктурированных пленок диоксида олова. В области высоких концентраций (более 50% от насыщенного пара) концентрационная зависимость проводимости имеет тенденцию к насыщению. Показана возможность распознавания сорта примесного газа с помощью статистической обработки отклика только одного сенсора при различных концентрациях анализируемой пробы. Определено положение поверхностного донорного уровня примесного газа относительно акцепторного уровня кислорода и теплота десорбции частиц исследуемых газов. Предложен новый метод мультипараметрического распознавания газовых смесей, основанный на использование в качестве признаков классификации физико-химических параметров анализируемых газов, не зависящих от их концентрации. Установлено, что предложенный метод мультипараметрического распознавания газовых смесей имеет более высокую надежность по сравнению со стандартными методами, основанными на анализе отклика сенсоров газа. The influence of organic vapors (isopropanol, ethanol, and acetone) with different concentrations in air on a response gas sensor based on nanostructured tin dioxide films synthesized by the sol-gel method was studied. It was found experimentally that inject of the gas mixtures containing organic vapors into measure chamber results to an increase of the conductivity of nanostructured tin dioxide films. In the area of high concentrations (more than 50% of saturated vapor), the concentration dependence of conductivity trends to saturation. The recognizing possibility of species gas admixture by using statistical processing of response only single sensor at different analyzed gas mixture concentrations is validated. The surface donor level of gas-reducing relative to acceptor level oxygen and desorption heat of gas particle were determined. A new method based multiparametric recognition gas mixtures is proposed based on using concentration-independent physical and chemical parameters of analyzed gases as classification properties. It is shown that proposed multiparametric recognition method has higher reliability in comparison with standard methods based on the analysis gas sensor response.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Patoulias ◽  
Spyros N. Pandis

Abstract. PMCAMx-UF, a three-dimensional chemical transport model focusing on the simulation of the ultrafine particle size distribution and composition has been extended with the addition of reactions of chemical aging of semi-volatile anthropogenic organic vapors, the emissions and chemical aging by intermediate volatile organic compounds (IVOCs) and the production of extremely low volatility organic compounds (ELVOCs) by monoterpenes. The model is applied in Europe to quantify the effect of these processes on particle number concentrations. The model predictions are evaluated against both ground measurements collected during the PEGASOS 2012 summer campaign across many stations in Europe and airborne observations by a Zeppelin measuring above Po-Valley, Italy. PMCAMx-UF reproduces the ground level daily average concentrations of particles larger than 100 nm (N100) with normalized mean error (NME) of 45 % and normalized mean bias (NMB) close to 10 %. For the same simulation, PMCAMx-UF tends to overestimate the concentration of particles larger than 10 nm (N10) with a daily NMB of 23 % and a daily NME of 63 %. The model was able to reproduce more than 75 % of the N10 and N100 airborne observations (Zeppelin) within a factor of 2. The ELVOC production by monoterpenes is predicted to lead to surprisingly small changes of the average number concentrations over Europe. The total number concentration decreased due to the ELVOC formation by 0.2 %, the N10 decreases by 1.1 %, while N50 increased by 3 % and N100 by 4 % due to this new SOA source. This small change is due to the nonlinearity of the system with increases predicted in some areas and decreases in others, but also the cancelation of the effects of the various processes like accelerated growth and accelerated coagulation. Locally, the effects can be significant. For example, an increase in N100 by 20–50 % is predicted over Scandinavia and significant increases (10–20 %) over some parts of central Europe. The ELVOCs contributed on average around 0.5 μg m−3 and accounted for 10–15 % of the PM2.5 OA. The addition of IVOC emissions and their aging reactions led to surprising reduction of the total number of particles (Ntot) and N10 by 10–15 and 5–10 %, respectively, and to an increase of the concentration of N100 by 5–10 %. These were due to the accelerated coagulation and reduced nucleation rates.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Heitto ◽  
Kari Lehtinen ◽  
Tuukka Petäjä ◽  
Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker ◽  
Joel A. Thornton ◽  
...  

Abstract. The rate at which freshly formed secondary aerosol particles grow is an important factor in determining their climate impacts. The growth rate of atmospheric nanoparticles may be affected by particle phase oligomerization and decomposition of condensing organic molecules. We used Model for Oligomerization and Decomposition in Nanoparticle Growth (MODNAG) to investigate the potential atmospheric significance of these effects. This was done by conducting multiple simulations with varying reaction-related parameters (volatilities of the involved compounds and reaction rates) using both artificial and ambient measured gas phase concentrations of organic vapors to define the condensing vapors. While our study does not aim at providing information on any specific reaction, our results indicate that particle phase reactions have significant potential to affect the nanoparticle growth. In simulations where one-third of a volatility basis set bin was allowed to go through particle phase reactions the maximum increase in growth rates was 71 % and decrease 26 % compared to base case where no particle phase reactions were assumed to take place. These results highlight the importance of investigating and increasing our understanding of particle phase reactions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
De-Shan Hou ◽  
Lin Zheng ◽  
Dong-Peng Sun ◽  
Xuan Zhou ◽  
Ji-Liang Zhu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Meng Rong ◽  
Liangrong Yang ◽  
Chao Yang ◽  
Jiemiao Yu ◽  
Huizhou Liu

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 7039-7052
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Shen ◽  
Junying Sun ◽  
Fangqun Yu ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Junting Zhong ◽  
...  

Abstract. Influenced by the spread of the global 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, primary emissions of particles and precursors associated with anthropogenic activities decreased significantly in China during the Chinese New Year of 2020 and the lockdown period (24 January–16 February 2020). The 2-month measurements of the number size distribution of neutral particles and charged ions showed that during the lockdown (LCD) period, the number concentration of particles smaller than 100 nm decreased by approximately 40 % compared to the pre-LCD period in January. However, the accumulation mode particles increased by approximately 20 % as several polluted episodes contributed to secondary aerosol formation. In this study, new particle formation (NPF) events were found to be enhanced in the nucleation and growth processes during the LCD period, as indicated by the higher formation rate of 2 nm particles (J2) and the subsequent growth rate (GR). The relevant precursors, e.g., SO2 and NO2, showed a clear reduction, and O3 increased by 80 % during LCD period, as compared with pre-LCD. The volatile organic vapors showed different trends due to their sources. The proxy sulfuric acid during the LCD period increased by approximately 26 %, as compared with pre-LCD. The major oxidants (O3, OH, and NO3) of VOCs were also found to be elevated during LCD. That indicated higher J2 and GR (especially below 5 nm) during the LCD period were favored by the increased concentration level of condensing vapors and decreased condensation sink. Several heavy haze episodes have been reported by other studies during the LCD period; however, the increase in nanoparticle number concentration should also be considered. Some typical NPF events produced a high number concentration of nanoparticles that intensified in the following days to create severe aerosol pollution under unfavorable meteorological conditions. Our study confirms a significant enhancement of the nucleation and growth process of nanoparticles during the COVID-19 LCD in Beijing and highlights the necessity of controlling nanoparticles in current and future air quality management.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliang Liu ◽  
Wei Nie ◽  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
Dafeng Ge ◽  
Chong Liu ◽  
...  

Abstract. Oxygenated organic molecules (OOMs) are the crucial intermediates linking volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in the atmosphere, but understandings on the characteristics of OOMs and their formations from VOCs are very limited. Ambient observations of OOMs using recently developed mass spectrometry techniques are still limited, especially in polluted urban atmosphere where VOCs and oxidants are extremely variable and complex. Here, we investigate OOMs, measured by a nitrate-ion-based chemical ionization mass spectrometer at Nanjing in eastern China, through performing positive matrix factorization on binned mass spectra (binPMF). The binPMF analysis reveals three factors about anthropogenic VOCs (AVOCs) daytime chemistry, three isoprene-related factors, three factors about biogenic VOCs (BVOCs) nighttime chemistry, and three factors about nitrated phenols. All factors are influenced by NOx in different ways and to different extents. Over 1000 non-nitro molecules have been identified and then reconstructed from the selected solution of binPMF, and about 72 % of the total signals are contributed by nitrogen-containing OOMs, mostly regarded as organic nitrates formed through peroxy radicals terminated by nitric oxide or nitrate-radical-initiated oxidations. Moreover, multi-nitrates account for about 24 % of the total signals, indicating the significant presence of multiple generations, especially for isoprene (e.g., C5H10O8N2 and C5H9O10N3). Additionally, the distribution of OOMs concentration on carbon number confirm their precursors driven by AVOCs mixed with enhanced BVOCs during summer. Our results highlight the decisive role of NOx on OOMs formation in densely populated areas, and encourage more studies on the dramatic interactions between anthropogenic and biogenic emissions.


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