Preliminary investigation of a water-based method for fast integrating mobility spectrometry

Spielman, Steven R.; Hering, Susanne V.; Kuang, Chongai; Wang, Jian

doi:10.1080/02786826.2017.1338338

Title: Preliminary investigation of a water-based method for fast integrating mobility spectrometry

Abstract

A water-based condensational growth channel was developed for imaging mobility-separated particles within a parallel plate separation channel of the Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer (FIMS). Reported are initial tests of that system, in which the alcohol condenser of the FIMS was replaced by a water-based condensational growth channel. Tests with monodispersed sodium chloride aerosol verify that the water-condensational growth maintained the laminar flow, while providing sufficient growth for particle imaging. Particle positions mapped onto particle mobility, in accordance with theoretical expectations. Particles ranging in size from 12 nm to 100 nm were counted with the same efficiency as with a butanol-based ultrafine particle counter, once inlet and line losses were taken into account.

Authors:

Spielman, Steven R. ^[1]; Hering, Susanne V. ^[1]; Kuang, Chongai ^[2]; Wang, Jian ^[2]

Aerosol Dynamics Inc., Berkeley, CA (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1425059

Report Number(s):: BNL-200060-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0278-6826

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Aerosol Science and Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0278-6826

Publisher:: American Association for Aerosol Research

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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                    Spielman, Steven R., Hering, Susanne V., Kuang, Chongai, and Wang, Jian. Preliminary investigation of a water-based method for fast integrating mobility spectrometry.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Spielman, Steven R., Hering, Susanne V., Kuang, Chongai, & Wang, Jian. Preliminary investigation of a water-based method for fast integrating mobility spectrometry.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2017.1338338

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  title        = {Preliminary investigation of a water-based method for fast integrating mobility spectrometry},

  author       = {Spielman, Steven R. and Hering, Susanne V. and Kuang, Chongai and Wang, Jian},

  abstractNote = {A water-based condensational growth channel was developed for imaging mobility-separated particles within a parallel plate separation channel of the Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer (FIMS). Reported are initial tests of that system, in which the alcohol condenser of the FIMS was replaced by a water-based condensational growth channel. Tests with monodispersed sodium chloride aerosol verify that the water-condensational growth maintained the laminar flow, while providing sufficient growth for particle imaging. Particle positions mapped onto particle mobility, in accordance with theoretical expectations. Particles ranging in size from 12 nm to 100 nm were counted with the same efficiency as with a butanol-based ultrafine particle counter, once inlet and line losses were taken into account.},

  doi          = {10.1080/02786826.2017.1338338},

  journal      = {Aerosol Science and Technology},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 51,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Tue Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

}

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Figure 1.: Schematic of the water-FIMS system, showing mobility separator, water condensation growth channel and detection zone. The system uses a parallel plate geometry. In this sketch the gap dimension has been greatly magnified with respect to the length.

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A water-based fast integrated mobility spectrometer (WFIMS) with enhanced dynamic size range [Supplemental Data]
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