A Diethylene Glycol Condensation Particle Counter for Rapid Sizing of sub-3 nm Atmospheric Clusters
Abstract
AbstractThis paper describes the modification of a laminar flow, thermally diffusive universal-fluid condensation particle counter (standard operation: 50% detection efficiency at 5 nm) to rapidly measure the size distribution of sub 3 nm aerosol. Sub 3 nm detection was achieved by using diethylene glycol as the working fluid, which enabled high instrument super-saturations while minimizing homogenous nucleation of the working fluid; a detection efficiency of 50% was achieved at 1.6 nm with laboratory-generated ammonium sulfate aerosol. Rapid aerosol sizing beneath 3 nm was achieved by inverting the measured grown droplet size distribution (1 second sampling) to recover the sampled aerosol size distribution. The developed inversion algorithm utilizes analytical kernel functions determined from the instrument response to pseudo-monodisperse ammonium sulfate aerosol from 1.5 nm to 20 nm, generated by a high resolution DMA and a nano DMA. The inversion algorithm was tested numerically with assumed, idealized aerosol size distributions consistent with observed new particle formation events, yielding reasonable agreement between inverted and assumed aerosol size distributions below 3 nm. Furthermore, this technique provides a measure of the aerosol size assuming an aerosol composition identical to that of the aerosol used to generate the experimentally determined kernel function.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1460820
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-207861-2018-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: 52; 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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Kuang, Chongai. A Diethylene Glycol Condensation Particle Counter for Rapid Sizing of sub-3 nm Atmospheric Clusters. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1080/02786826.2018.1481279.
Kuang, Chongai. A Diethylene Glycol Condensation Particle Counter for Rapid Sizing of sub-3 nm Atmospheric Clusters. United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2018.1481279
Kuang, Chongai. Mon .
"A Diethylene Glycol Condensation Particle Counter for Rapid Sizing of sub-3 nm Atmospheric Clusters". United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2018.1481279. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460820.
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author = {Kuang, Chongai},
abstractNote = {AbstractThis paper describes the modification of a laminar flow, thermally diffusive universal-fluid condensation particle counter (standard operation: 50% detection efficiency at 5 nm) to rapidly measure the size distribution of sub 3 nm aerosol. Sub 3 nm detection was achieved by using diethylene glycol as the working fluid, which enabled high instrument super-saturations while minimizing homogenous nucleation of the working fluid; a detection efficiency of 50% was achieved at 1.6 nm with laboratory-generated ammonium sulfate aerosol. Rapid aerosol sizing beneath 3 nm was achieved by inverting the measured grown droplet size distribution (1 second sampling) to recover the sampled aerosol size distribution. The developed inversion algorithm utilizes analytical kernel functions determined from the instrument response to pseudo-monodisperse ammonium sulfate aerosol from 1.5 nm to 20 nm, generated by a high resolution DMA and a nano DMA. The inversion algorithm was tested numerically with assumed, idealized aerosol size distributions consistent with observed new particle formation events, yielding reasonable agreement between inverted and assumed aerosol size distributions below 3 nm. Furthermore, this technique provides a measure of the aerosol size assuming an aerosol composition identical to that of the aerosol used to generate the experimentally determined kernel function.},
doi = {10.1080/02786826.2018.1481279},
journal = {Aerosol Science and Technology},
number = 10,
volume = 52,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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