Charging and coagulation of radioactive and nonradioactive particles in the atmosphere

Kim, Yong-ha; Yiacoumi, Sotira; Nenes, Athanasios; Tsouris, Costas

doi:10.5194/acp-16-3449-2016

Title: Charging and coagulation of radioactive and nonradioactive particles in the atmosphere

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3449-2016· OSTI ID:1214013

Kim, Yong-ha ^[1]; Yiacoumi, Sotira ^[1]; Nenes, Athanasios ^[1]; Tsouris, Costas ^[2]

Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Charging and coagulation influence one another and impact the particle charge and size distributions in the atmosphere. However, few investigations to date have focused on the coagulation kinetics of atmospheric particles accumulating charge. This study presents three approaches to include mutual effects of charging and coagulation on the microphysical evolution of atmospheric particles such as radioactive particles. The first approach employs ion balance, charge balance, and a bivariate population balance model (PBM) to comprehensively calculate both charge accumulation and coagulation rates of particles. The second approach involves a much simpler description of charging, and uses a monovariate PBM and subsequent effects of charge on particle coagulation. The third approach is further simplified assuming that particles instantaneously reach their steady-state charge distributions. It is found that compared to the other two approaches, the first approach can accurately predict time-dependent changes in the size and charge distributions of particles over a wide size range covering from the free molecule to continuum regimes. The other two approaches can reliably predict both charge accumulation and coagulation rates for particles larger than about 0.04 micrometers and atmospherically relevant conditions. Here, these approaches are applied to investigate coagulation kinetics of particles accumulating charge in a radioactive neutralizer, the urban atmosphere, and an atmospheric system containing radioactive particles. Limitations of the approaches are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Work for Others (WFO); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1214013

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1344282

Journal Information:: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online), Vol. 16, Issue 5; ISSN 1680-7324

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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