Modelling the contribution of biogenic volatile organic compounds to new particle formation in the Julich plant atmosphere chamber
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Summary, in English
We used the Aerosol Dynamics gas- and particle-phase chemistry model for laboratory CHAMber studies (ADCHAM) to simulate the contribution of BVOC plant emissions to the observed new particle formation during photooxidation experiments performed in the Julich Plant-Atmosphere Chamber and to evaluate how well smog chamber experiments can mimic the atmospheric conditions during new particle formation events. ADCHAM couples the detailed gas-phase chemistry from Master Chemical Mechanism with a novel aerosol dynamics and particle phase chemistry module. Our model simulations reveal that the observed particle growth may have either been controlled by the formation rate of semi- and low-volatility organic compounds in the gas phase or by acid catalysed heterogeneous reactions between semi-volatility organic compounds in the particle surface layer (e.g. peroxyhemiacetal dimer formation). The contribution of extremely low-volatility organic gas-phase compounds to the particle formation and growth was suppressed because of their rapid and irreversible wall losses, which decreased their contribution to the nano-CN formation and growth compared to the atmospheric situation. The best agreement between the modelled and measured total particle number concentration (R-2 > 0.95) was achieved if the nano-CN was formed by kinetic nucleation involving both sulphuric acid and organic compounds formed from OH oxidation of BVOCs.
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
10777-10798
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volym
15
Issue
18
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Copernicus GmbH
Ämne
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
- Physical Chemistry
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1680-7324