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Research article
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14 Oct 2021
Research article |
| 14 Oct 2021
| 14 Oct 2021
Nighttime chemistry of biomass burning emissions in urban areas: A dual mobile chamber study
Spiro D. Jorga
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Kalliopi Florou
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
Christos Kaltsonoudis
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
John K. Kodros
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
Christina Vasilakopoulou
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras
26504, Greece
Manuela Cirtog
LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil,
Université de Paris, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil,
France
Axel Fouqueau
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), 75015 Paris,
France
Bénédicte Picquet-Varrault
LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil,
Université de Paris, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil,
France
Athanasios Nenes
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
Spyros N. Pandis
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, ICE-HT, Patras 26504,
Greece
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras
26504, Greece
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Short summary
We test the hypothesis that significant secondary organic aerosol production can take place even during winter nights through the oxidation of the emitted organic vapors by the nitrate radicals produced during the reaction of ozone and nitrogen oxides. Our experiments, using as a starting point the ambient air of an urban area with high biomass burning activity, demonstrate that, even with sunlight, there is 20 %–70 % additional organic aerosol formed in a few hours.
We test the hypothesis that significant secondary organic aerosol production can take place even...
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