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In an effort to improve regulations for particulate emissions from aircraft engines, the Aircraft Exhaust Emissions Measurement Committee, SAE E-31, is investigating instruments to measure black carbon mass concentration in real time. The current candidates are a laser-induced incandescence instrument (LII 300) and a photo-acoustic Micro-Soot Sensor (MSS). However, both of these instruments use indirect techniques, measuring parameters other than the actual mass of particulate in the exhaust, and therefore require calibration. Previously, it has been shown that a centrifugal particle mass analyzer (CPMA) can be used in conjunction with an aerosol electrometer to traceably generate an aerosol with known mass concentration. This system can be used to rapidly calibrate particle mass instruments (on the order of minutes), without the time-consuming process of filter sampling, which is often used for calibration and prone to sampling artifacts. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of the CPMA-electrometer system for calibrating two LII 300 instruments and two MSS instruments, which were calibrated to the NIOSH 5040 standard. The correlations between the CPMA-electrometer system and the challenge instrument were highly linear for both the LII and the MSS, and agreed well with the previous calibration. All four instruments were found to correlate with the CPMA-electrometer system with R2 values of 0.993 to 0.999. The standard uncertainty in the CPMA-electrometer system averaged 4.3% and was as low as 2.6% for some measurements. With a simple improvement to the aerosol electrometer, we estimate this average uncertainty would be less than 3%. This lower uncertainty and much higher speed of measurement support the use of the CPMA-electrometer system as a mass measurement calibration method for black carbon instruments.

Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   

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Low-cost sensors are effective for measuring the mass concentration of ambient aerosols and second-hand smoke in homes, but their use at concentrations relevant to occupational settings has not been demonstrated. We measured the concentrations of four aerosols (salt, Arizona road dust, welding fume, and diesel exhaust) with three types of low-cost sensors (a DC1700 from Dylos and two commodity sensors from Sharp), an aerosol photometer, and reference instruments at concentrations up to 6500 µg/m3. Raw output was used to assess sensor precision and develop equations to compute mass concentrations. EPA and NIOSH protocols were used to assess the mass concentrations estimated with low-cost sensors compared to reference instruments. The detection efficiency of the DC1700 ranged from 0.04% at 0.1 µm to 108% at 5 µm, as expected, although misclassification of fine and coarse particles was observed. The raw output of the DC1700 had higher precision (lower coefficient of variation, CV = 7.4%) than that of the two sharp devices (CV = 25% and 17%), a finding attributed to differences in manufacturer calibration. Aerosol type strongly influenced sensor response, indicating the need for on-site calibration to convert sensor output to mass concentration. Once calibrated, however, the mass concentration estimated with low-cost sensors was highly correlated with that of reference instruments (R2= 0.99). These results suggest that the DC1700 and Sharp sensors are useful in estimating aerosol mass concentration for aerosols at concentrations relevant to the workplace.

© 2016 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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Routine calibrations of online aerosol chemical composition analyzers are important for assessing data quality during field measurements. The combination of a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) and condensation particle counter (CPC) is a reliable, conventional method for calibrations. However, some logistical issues arise, including the use of radioactive material, quality control, and deployment costs. Herein, we propose a new, simple calibration method for a particle mass spectrometer using polydispersed aerosol particles combined with an optical particle sizer. We used a laser-induced incandescence–mass spectrometric analyzer (LII-MS) to test the new method. Polydispersed aerosol particles of selected chemical compounds (ammonium sulfate and potassium nitrate) were generated by an aerosol atomizer. The LII section was used as an optical particle sizer for measuring number/volume size distributions of polydispersed aerosol particles. The calibration of the MS section was performed based on the mass concentrations of polydispersed aerosol particles estimated from the integration of the volume size distributions. The accuracy of the particle sizing for each compound is a key issue and was evaluated by measuring optical pulse height distributions for monodispersed ammonium sulfate and potassium nitrate particles as well as polystyrene latex particles. A comparison of the proposed method with the conventional DMA-CPC method and its potential uncertainties are discussed.

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Particulate matter in the atmosphere is known to affect Earth’s climate and to be harmful to human health. Accurately measuring particles from emission sources is important, as the results are used to inform policies and climate models. This study compares the results of two ELPI?+?devices, two PM10 cascade impactors and an eFilter, in combustion emission measurements. The comparison of the instruments in a realistic setting shows what types of challenges arise from measuring an emission aerosol with unknown particle morphologies and densities, different particle concentrations and high temperature. Our results show that the PM10 cascade impactors have very good intercorrelation when the collected mass is greater than 150?µg, but below that, the uncertainty of the results increases with decreasing mass. The raw signals of two ELPI?+?devices were nearly identical in most samples, as well as the particle number concentrations and size distributions calculated from raw signals; however, transforming the current distributions into mass distributions showed variation in the mass concentration of particles larger than 1?µm. The real-time time signal measured by eFilter was similar to the total current measured by ELPI+. The eFilter and PM10 cascade impactors showed similar particle mass concentrations, whereas ELPI?+?showed clearly higher ones in most cases. We concluded that the difference is at least partially due to volatile components being measured by ELPI+, but not by the mass collection measurements.

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Soot is a climate forcer and a dangerous air pollutant that has been increasingly regulated. In aviation, regulatory measurements of soot mass concentration in the exhaust of aircraft turbine engines are to be based on measurements of black carbon (BC) calibrated to elemental carbon (EC) content of diffusion flame soot. The calibration soot must currently meet only one criterion: minimum EC to total carbon (TC) ratio of 0.8. However, not including soot properties other than the EC/TC ratio may potentially lead to discrepancies between different BC measurements. We studied the response of two instruments, the AVL Micro-Soot Sensor (MSS) and the Artium Laser-Induced Incandescence 300 (LII), to soot from two miniature combustion aerosol standard (mini-CAST) burners. By changing the air-fuel ratio, premixing nitrogen into the fuel, and using a catalytic stripper to remove volatile compounds, we produced a wide range of particle morphologies and EC contents. As the EC content decreased, both the instruments underreported the EC mass, but the LII diverged more severely. Upon closer investigation of eight conditions with EC/TC > 0.8, the LII underreporting was found independent of primary particle size, but increased with decreasing geometric mean diameter of the soot agglomerates. As the geometric mean diameter decreased from 160 nm to 50 nm, the differences between the LII and MSS increased from 15% to 50%. The results suggest that in addition to EC content, calibration procedures for the regulatory BC measurements may need to take particle size distributions into account.

© 2016 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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Eight institutes using 12 different instruments analyzed newly developed multi-element reference materials (RM) for atmospheric particulate matter (PM) measurements. These RM have the potential to fill a gap in the currently available quality assurance resources for element analysis of PM samples such as X-ray fluorescence and inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry. This study evaluates the performance of these new RM generated by the University of California, Davis. The methodological challenge was to determine the reference loadings on the RM. Gravimetry is the most robust method to determine the sample deposit mass but cannot be used for these RM because some solution components are volatile and result in unpredictable total mass loadings on the RM. Instead of using gravimetry, a single well-measured element, along with the assumption that the relative mass fractions in the solutions were maintained in the aerosol deposited on the filters, was used to determine the reference loadings on the RM. This assumption appears to be valid for most elements in the solutions; notable exceptions include volatile species such as chlorine and bromine. Results from the 12 different instruments in the inter-laboratory evaluation agreed very well with the reference loadings (adjusted R2 > 0.9 and slope between 0.7 and 1.3) for 17 of the 28 elements. In many cases, one or two instruments did not meet the performance criteria, which points to individual instrument calibration problems. For the 11 elements that did not perform as well, development work continues, and this intercomparison helped identify and fix a source of contamination in the system used to create the RM.

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In situ atmospheric aerosol measurements have been performed from a Manta unmanned aircraft system (UAS) using recently developed miniaturized aerosol instruments. Flights were conducted up to an altitude of 3000 m (AMSL) during spring 2015 in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway. We use these flights to demonstrate a practical set of miniaturized instruments that can be deployed onboard small UASs and can provide valuable information on ambient aerosol. Measured properties include size-resolved particle number concentrations, aerosol absorption coefficient, relative humidity, and direct sun intensity. From these parameters, it is possible to derive a comprehensive set of aerosol optical properties: aerosol optical depth, single scattering albedo, and asymmetry parameter. The combination of instruments also allows us to determine the aerosol hygroscopicity.

Copyright © 2017 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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The main sources of particulate emissions from engines are fuel and lubricating oil. In this study, particles emitted by a medium speed diesel engine for locomotive use were characterized chemically by using a soot particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SP-AMS). Additionally, positive matrix factorization (PMF) was applied to the SP-AMS data for the separation of fuel from lubricating oil and/or oil additives in diesel engine emissions. The mass spectra of refractory species, i.e., metals and rBC, were included in the PMF input matrix in addition to organics in order to utilize the benefit of the SP-AMS to measure non-refractory and refractory species. In general, particulate matter emitted by the diesel engine was dominated by organics (51%) followed by refractory black carbon (rBC; 48%), trace metals and inorganic species (1%). Regarding the sources of particles, PMF indicated four factors for particle mass of which two were related to lubricating oil-like aerosol (LOA1, 29% and LOA2, 24%) and two others to diesel-like fuel aerosol (DFA1, 35% and DFA2, 12%). The main difference between LOA1 and LOA2 was the presence of soot in LOA1 and metals in LOA2 factors. DFA factors represented burned (DFA1) and unburned fuel (DFA2). The results from the PMF analysis were completed with particle size distributions, volatility measurements and particle morphology analyses.

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A novel inversion method is presented, which derives the two-variable number distribution for black carbon aerosol, using a coupled centrifugal particle mass analyzer (CPMA) and single particle soot photometer (SP2). The CPMA classifies all particles by their mass-to-charge ratio, and the SP2 detects the mass of refractive black carbon (rBC) in each individual particle. The results of the inversion are the simultaneous number distributions of both rBC mass and total particle mass. Using the distribution, the coating distribution on a population of rBC particles can be identified visually. Furthermore, the distribution can be integrated to find one-variable mass and number concentration distributions as a function of total or rBC particle mass. These capabilities were demonstrated via smog chamber experiments, where an organic (non-rBC) coating was grown onto uncoated rBC aerosol over several hours via photo-oxidation of p-xylene. The particle distributions were constructed using the inversion over a range of 1–60 fg of total particle mass. As the non-rBC coating thickness increased over time, a shift in the number distribution toward higher total mass was observed. At the end of the experiment, uncoated rBC was injected into the chamber, and the distribution was clearly resolved using the inversion. The CPMA-SP2 method offers several advantages over “SP-2 only” methods, namely, (i) coating mass information can be obtained over a wider range of total particle mass, (ii) total particle mass is measured directly, and (iii) it does not make core–shell morphology assumptions.

Copyright © 2018 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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Size-segregated aerosol vertical profiles in the troposphere are critically important for source attribution, transformation processes, atmospheric stability, and radiative forcing. For the first time, the development of a 6-stage impactor for real-time balloon-borne measurements of size-segregated (cutoff diameter [Dae]: 0.15–5?µm) aerosol mass concentrations in the free troposphere was tested during spring 2016 over Hyderabad, India, is presented. Total aerosol mass concentrations obtained with the 6-stage impactor (MTI) and a co-located optical particle counter (MTOPC) measurements at the surface under ambient conditions agreed to within 15%. The effect of aerosol particle growth on the MTI data are assessed using an urban aerosol particle model by scaling mass concentration of water-soluble (hydrophilic) aerosol particles at ambient relative humidity (RH) to that at RH = 50%. An overall uncertainty of the measurement of the MTI was estimated to be about 19%. The altitude variation of size-segregated mass concentrations of aerosol particles along with thermodynamic variables depicted convectively well-mixed layer extending up to about 4.5?km within which aerosol particles showed two distinct layers, one at ~2?km and another at about 4.5?km. The size-resolved air samples containing aerosol particles collected using the balloon-borne 6-stage impactor will be useful for their chemical characterization and also long-range transport studies.

Copyright © 2019 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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We create and qualify a Volatility and Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (VH-TDMA) for the study of aerosols. This VH-TDMA measures size distributions, volatility, and hygroscopicity and includes an auxiliary conditioner that allows quick connection to other external aerosol conditioners. The differential mobility analyzers are not temperature controlled, allowing the surrounding environment to influence the measurement conditions, and this is fully accounted for when measuring aerosol volatility and hygroscopicity. For the volatility conditioner, the VH-TDMA uses a 15?m coil of tubing in an oven to evaporate aerosol samples at elevated temperatures. We measured several single component model aerosols to qualify the differential mobility particle sizer (DMPS) channel and each of the conditioners: hygroscopicity and volatility. Due to insufficient power supply calibration in this study, the TDMA channel is limited to particle sizes greater than 70?nm. The DMPS channel was able to reproduce ammonium sulfate size distributions when compared to common scanning mobility particle sizers. For hygroscopicity, the standard deviation in the measured ammonium sulfate growth factors was 0.03 over a 4-h experiment. From this data, the TDMA has an observed relative humidity error of ±0.6% with manufacturer reported error of ±1.2% relative humidity. The volatility channel reproduced the previously published saw tooth pattern of room temperature saturation vapor pressures from atomized C3-C9 diacids. The maximum percent difference in room temperature saturation vapor pressure was approximately 80%. The enthalpy of sublimation derived from the diacids increased monotonically (except for suberic acid) and resembled measurements from mass effusion techniques.

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The use of inlets for transferring aerosols from the environment to instrumentation can introduce uncertainty in the measurement of aerosol properties. Aerosol loss during this process is a non-negligible issue that may bias the subsequent measurements. These loss mechanisms include aspiration at the inlet head and deposition/evaporation/condensation during transport through the sampling lines. Coarse-mode aerosol is significantly impacted by the aspiration and inertial loss mechanisms within an inlet system. This work uses wind tunnel experiments to investigate aerosol losses through the Storm Peak Laboratory’s (SPL) new aerosol inlet system. The inlet is used extensively for both intensive field campaigns and long-term aerosol monitoring. The results of numerical simulations of the SPL aerosol inlet sampling efficiency are provided at several wind speeds, and experimental results demonstrate the system has a 50% cut off for the coarse-mode at an aerodynamic diameter of approximately 13?μm and wind speed of 0.5?m s?1. This investigation will lead to improved accuracy of in situ aerosol measurements at SPL and this system can be replicated at other atmospheric stations.

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To address the critical need for improving the chemical characterization of the organic composition of ambient particulate matter, we introduce a combined thermal desorption aerosol gas chromatograph—aerosol mass spectrometer (TAG-AMS). The TAG system provides in-situ speciation of organic chemicals in ambient aerosol particles with hourly time resolution for marker compounds indicative of sources and transformation processes. However, by itself the TAG cannot separate by particle size and it typically speciates and quantifies only a fraction of the organic aerosol (OA) mass. The AMS is a real-time, in-situ instrument that provides quantitative size distributions and mass loadings for ambient fine OA and major inorganic fractions; however, by itself the AMS has limited ability for identification of individual organic compounds due to the electron impact ionization detection scheme used without prior molecular separation.

The combined TAG-AMS system provides real-time detection by AMS followed by semicontinuous analysis of the TAG sample that was acquired during AMS operation, achieving simultaneous and complementary measurements of quantitative organic mass loading and detailed organic speciation. We have employed a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-MS) to enable elemental-level determination of OA oxidation state as measured on the AMS, and to allow improved compound identification and separation of unresolved complex mixtures (UCM) measured on the TAG. The TAG-AMS interface has been developed as an upgrade for existing AMS systems. Such measurements will improve the identification of organic constituents of ambient aerosol and contribute to the ability of atmospheric chemistry models to predict ambient aerosol composition and loadings.

Copyright 2014 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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Single-particle mass spectrometry (SPMS) has been widely used for characterizing the chemical mixing state of ambient aerosol particles. However, processes occurring during particle ablation and ionization can influence the mass spectra produced by these instruments. These effects remain poorly characterized for complex atmospheric particles. During the 2005 Study of Organic Aerosols in Riverside (SOAR), a thermodenuder was used to evaporate the more volatile aerosol species in sequential temperature steps up to 230°C; the residual aerosol particles were sampled by an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) and a single-particle aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ATOFMS). Removal of the secondary species (e.g., ammonium nitrate/sulfate) through heating permitted assessment of the change in ionization patterns as the composition changed for a given particle type. It was observed that a coating of secondary species can reduce the ionization efficiency by changing the degree of laser absorption or particle ablation, which significantly impacted the measured ion peak areas. Nonvolatile aerosol components were used as pseudo-internal standards (or “reference components”) to correct for this LDI effect. Such corrected ATOFMS ion peak areas correlated well with the AMS measurements of the same species up to 142°C. This work demonstrates the potential to accurately relate SPMS peak areas to the mass of specific aerosol components.

Copyright 2014 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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Thermal desorption aerosol mass spectrometers (TDAMSs) with electron ionization are widely used to quantitatively measure aerosol chemical compositions. The physical and chemical mechanisms affecting the ionization efficiency of evolved gas molecules are not fully understood. We have developed a numerical model for simulating the dynamics of gas molecules evolved from aerosol particles. The simulation model is composed of two main sections. The first section simulates the elastic collisions of the evolved gas molecules in a small region near the vaporization source (collision domain), where the mean free paths of the molecules are much shorter than those in the surrounding high vacuum environment. The second section simulates the free-molecular dynamics from the boundary of the first section to the ionizer. The ionization efficiencies of ammonia and hydrogen iodide molecules that evolved from ammonium iodide particles were evaluated. Our results suggest that the molecular collisions during the early stage of plume expansion and possible changes in the molecular velocities induced by these collisions could be an important mechanism affecting the observed variability in the ionization efficiency. However, the physical and chemical processes of the vaporization and ionization of aerosol particles in TDAMSs may be too complex to be quantitatively reproduced using simplified numerical models.

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Microfluidics is used in a broad range of applications, from biology and medicine to chemistry and polymer science, because this versatile platform enables rapid and precise repeatability of measurements and experiments on a relatively low-cost laboratory platform. Despite wide-ranging uses, this powerful research platform remains under-utilized by the atmospheric aerosol science community. This review will summarize selected microfluidic concepts and tools with potential applications to aerosol science. Where appropriate, the basic operating conditions and tunable parameters in microfluidics will be compared to typical aerosol experimental methods. Microfluidics offers a number of advantages over larger-scale experiments; for example, the small volumes of sample required for experiments open a number of avenues for sample collection that are accessible to the aerosol community. Filter extraction, spot sampling, and particle-into-liquid sampling techniques could all be used to capture aerosol samples to supply microfluidic measurements and experiments. Microfluidic concepts, such as device geometries for creating emulsions and developments in particle and droplet manipulation techniques will be reviewed, and current and potential microfluidic applications to aerosol science will be discussed.

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The Pegasor PPS-M sensor is an electrical aerosol sensor based on diffusion charging and current measurement without particle collection. In this study, the role and effect of each component in the instrument is discussed shortly and the results from a thorough calibration measurements are presented. A comprehensive response model for the operation of the PPS-M sensor was developed based on the calibration results and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling results. The obtained response model, covering the effects of the particle charger, the mobility analyzer, and both diffusion and inertial losses, was tested in the laboratory measurements with polydisperse test aerosols, where a good correlation between the model and the measured results was found.

Copyright 2014 American Association for Aerosol Research  相似文献   


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In the present work, the centrifugal filter proposed by the authors was applied to classify aerosol particles followed by the detection of total mass or number concentrations so as to measure the size distribution of aerosol particles. The structure and operating condition of the centrifugal filter were optimized in order to attain sharp separation curves with various cut-off sizes between 0.3 and 10 μm. The aerosol penetrating the centrifugal filter at various rotation speeds was measured with a photometer to determine the total mass concentration. The virtue of this system is that the cut-off size is varied just by scanning the rotation speed of filter and that it can be applied to the measurement of high concentration aerosols without dilution by choosing an appropriate filter medium. As a result, the centrifugal filter was successfully applied to measure the size distribution of solid particles in size ranging from 0.3 to 10 μm.

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Single particle levitation is a key tool in the analysis of the physicochemical properties of aerosol particles. Central to these techniques is the ability to determine the size of the confined particle or droplet, usually achieved via optical methods. While some of these methods are extremely accurate, they are not suitable for all applications and sample types, such as solid or optically absorbing particles. In this work, measurements of the radius, mass, and charge of droplets in a linear quadrupole electrodynamic balance (LQ-EDB) are reported. Using the elastic light scattering pattern produced by laser illumination, a method to determine the radius is described, with an accuracy of as good as ±60?nm and a sensitivity to changes on the order of 10?nm. The effect of refractive index on these measurements is explored by application of the technique to simulated data using Mie theory. In addition to radius, the relative and absolute mass and charge of droplets in the trap is measured from the voltage required to stabilize their vertical position. These measurements are facilitated by stacking multiple droplets in the LQ-EDB and solving the force balance equations to yield both parameters. These approaches are demonstrated through measurements of the evaporation of pure ethylene glycol and pure water droplets, the change in density of an aqueous glycerol solution as water evaporates, and the mass and charge of pure glycerol droplets.

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A butanol-type ultrafine condensation particle counter (UCPC, Model 3776, TSI, Inc., Shoreview, MN, USA), which can achieve a 50% detection efficiency diameter (d50) of 2.5 nm using a capillary-sheath structure, was modified and tested in the laboratory for airborne measurements. The aerosol flow rate through the capillary is a key factor affecting the quantification of aerosol particle number concentrations. A pressure-dependent correction factor for the aerosol flow rate was determined using a newly added mass flow meter for the sheath flow and the external calibration system. The effect of particle coincidence in the optical sensing volume was evaluated using an aerosol electrometer (AE, Model 3068B, TSI, Inc.) as a reference. An additional correction factor for the coincidence effect was derived to improve the quantification accuracy at higher concentrations. The particle detection efficiency relative to the AE was measured for mobility diameters of 3.1–50 nm and inlet absolute pressures of 101–40 kPa. The pressure dependence of the d50 value, asymptotic detection efficiency, and shape of the particle detection efficiency curve is discussed, along with simple theoretical calculations for the diffusion loss of particles and the butanol saturation ratio in the condenser.

© 2017 American Association for Aerosol Science  相似文献   


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