Secondary organic aerosol formation and organic nitrate yield from NO3oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons

Autor: Fry, JL, Draper, DC, Barsanti, KC, Smith, JN, Ortega, J, Winkler, PM, Lawler, MJ, Brown, SS, Edwards, PM, Cohen, RC, Lee, L
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
Zdroj: Fry, JL; Draper, DC; Barsanti, KC; Smith, JN; Ortega, J; Winkler, PM; et al.(2014). Secondary organic aerosol formation and organic nitrate yield from NO3oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons. Environmental Science and Technology, 48(20), 11944-11953. doi: 10.1021/es502204x. UC Berkeley: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/74r565v0
Popis: © 2014 American Chemical Society. The secondary organic aerosol (SOA) mass yields from NO3oxidation of a series of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), consisting of five monoterpenes and one sesquiterpene (α-pinene, β-pinene, Δ-3-carene, limonene, sabinene, and β-caryophyllene), were investigated in a series of continuous flow experiments in a 10 m3indoor Teflon chamber. By making in situ measurements of the nitrate radical and employing a kinetics box model, we generate time-dependent yield curves as a function of reacted BVOC. SOA yields varied dramatically among the different BVOCs, from zero for α-pinene to 38-65% for Δ-3-carene and 86% for β-caryophyllene at mass loading of 10 μg m-3, suggesting that model mechanisms that treat all NO3+ monoterpene reactions equally will lead to errors in predicted SOA depending on each location's mix of BVOC emissions. In most cases, organonitrate is a dominant component of the aerosol produced, but in the case of α-pinene, little organonitrate and no aerosol is formed.
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