Methods of analysis for complex organic aerosol mixtures from urban emission sources of particulate carbon

Conference · Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6523778

Mazurek, M A ^[1]; Hildemann, L M ^[2]; Cass, G R; Rogge, W F ^[3]; Simoneit, B R.T. ^[4]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
2. Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Dept. of Civil Engineering
3. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (USA). Dept. of Environmental Engineering Science
4. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (USA). Coll. of Oceanography

Extractable organic compounds having between 6 to 40 carbon atoms comprise an important mass fraction of the fine particulate matter samples from major urban emission sources. Depending on the emission source type, this solvent-soluble fraction accounts for <20% to 100% of the total organic aerosol mass, as measured by quantitative high-resolution has chromatography (HRGC) with flame ionization detection. In addition to total extract quantitation, HRGC can be applied to further analyses of the mass distributions of elutable organics present in the complex aerosol extract mixtures, thus generating profiles that serve as fingerprints'' for the sources of interest. This HRGC analytical method is applied to emission source samples that contain between 7 to 12,000 {mu}g/filter organic carbon. It is shown to be a sensitive technique for analysis of carbonaceous aerosol extract mixtures having diverse mass loadings and species distributions. This study describes the analytical chemical methods that have been applied to: the construction of chemical mass balances based on the mass of fine organic aerosol emitted for major urban sources of particulate carbon; and the generation of discrete emission source chemical profiles derived from chromatographic characteristics of the organic aerosol components. 21 refs., 1 fig., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6523778
• Report Number(s): BNL-44441; CONF-9008162-1; ON: DE91001722
• Resource Relation: Conference: Symposium on measurement of airborne compounds: sampling, analysis, and data interpretation, Washington, DC (USA), 26-31 Aug 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC
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PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
AEROSOLS
EMISSION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
PARTICULATES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
EVALUATION
CHROMATOGRAPHY
COLLOIDS
DISPERSIONS
PARTICLES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLS
540120* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring &amp; Transport- (1990-)
400102 - Chemical &amp; Spectral Procedures