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Chamber simulation on the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) from diesel vehicle exhaust in China
Abstract. In China primary particulate matter emission from on-road vehicles is predominantly coming from diesels, yet secondary organic aerosols (SOA) formed from diesel emission may be also of greater significance due to more intermediate volatile organic compounds (IVOC) in the exhaust. Here we introduced exhaust from in-use diesel vehicles under warm idling condition directly into an indoor smog chamber with a 30 m3 Teflon reactor, and investigated the SOA formation as well as chemical aging of organic aerosols during photo-oxidation. The emission factors of primary organic aerosol (POA) and black carbon (BC) for the three typical Chinese diesel vehicles ranged 0.18–0.91 and 0.15–0.51 g kg-fuel−1, respectively; and the SOA production factors ranged 0.50–1.8 g kg-fuel−1 with an average SOA/POA ratio of 1.6. Aromatic hydrocarbons could only explain less than 3 % of SOA formed during aging, and IVOC and oxygenated VOC might contribute substantially to SOA formation. High resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) resolved that POA dominated by CH classes (alkanes, cycloalkanes and alkenes) with high abundances of the CnH2n+1 and CnH2n-1 fragments, and after photo-oxidation the fraction of CH classes and the H/C ratios decreased, while the fraction of CHO, as well as the ratios of O/C and of organic matter to organic carbon (OM/OC), all increased. The plot of f44 (ratio of m/z 44 to the total signal in a mass spectrum) versus f43 indicated that diesel SOA were semi-volatile oxygenated organic aerosols (SV-OOA). The slopes of O:C versus H:C element ratios in the Van Krevelen diagram ranged from −0.47 to −0.68, suggesting a combination of carboxylic acid and alcohols/peroxides formed during the aging of diesel exhaust.
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RC1: 'Review of “Chamber simulation on the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) from diesel vehicle exhaust in China” by Deng et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
- AC4: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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RC2: 'Review of Deng et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2' comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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RC3: 'Interactive comment on “Chamber simulation on the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) from diesel vehicle exhaust in China” by Wei Deng et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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RC1: 'Review of “Chamber simulation on the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) from diesel vehicle exhaust in China” by Deng et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
- AC4: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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RC2: 'Review of Deng et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2' comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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RC3: 'Interactive comment on “Chamber simulation on the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) from diesel vehicle exhaust in China” by Wei Deng et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3's comments', Xinming Wang, 26 Apr 2016
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