Quantitative characterization of urban sources of organic aerosol by high-resolution gas chromatography

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · Environmental Science and Technology; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/es00019a014· OSTI ID:5468703

Hildemann, L M; A, Mazurek M; Cass, G R ^[1]; Simoneit, B R.T. ^[2]

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1. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena (United States)
2. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis (United States)

Fine aerosol emissions have been collected from a variety of urban combustion sources, including an industrial boiler, a fireplace, automobiles, diesel trucks, gas-fired home appliances, and meat cooking operations, by use of a dilution sampling system. Other sampling techniques have been utilized to collect fine aerosol samples of paved road dust, brake wear, tire wear, cigarette smoke, tar pot emissions, and vegetative detritus. The organic matter contained in each of these samples has been analyzed via high-resolution gas chromatography. By use of a simple computational approach, a quantitative, 50-parameter characterization of the elutable fine organic aerosol emitted from each source type has been determined. The organic mass distribution fingerprints obtained by this approach are shown to differ significantly from each other for most of the source types tested, using hierarchical cluster analysis.

• OSTI ID: 5468703
• Journal Information: Environmental Science and Technology; (United States), Vol. 25:7; ISSN 0013-936X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
09 BIOMASS FUELS
AEROSOLS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
ORGANIC MATTER
POLLUTION SOURCES
PATTERN RECOGNITION
AIR POLLUTION
AUTOMOBILES
BOILERS
CHARCOAL
DIESEL FUELS
DUSTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
EXTRACTION
FIREPLACES
FOREST LITTER
FUEL OILS
GAS APPLIANCES
GASOLINE
NATURAL GAS
PAVEMENTS
TAR
TIRES
URBAN AREAS
WOOD FUELS
ADSORBENTS
APPLIANCES
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
COLLOIDS
DATA
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GAS OILS
GASES
INFORMATION
LIQUID FUELS
MATERIALS
MATTER
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
POLLUTION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLS
VEHICLES
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