新型多级冲击采样器切割粒径的标准粒子实验分析

大气溶胶对环境污染、气候变化以及人体健康有着重要的影响,大气溶胶的采集和分析已成为当前大气环境研究领域中的一个重要课题.论述的新型多级冲击采样器能够实现大气溶胶颗粒物按空气动力学粒径的大小7级分离采集,提供大致均匀的平面样品以进行后续的物理、化学分析,同时保证各分级切割粒径的稳定性.利用振动孔溶胶发生器产生均匀、粒径大致相同、单分散相的1.5～17μm空气动力学粒径标准粒子,对新型多级冲击采样器前三级的切割粒径和收集效率进行鉴定性分析实验,结果表明,能够满足对大气溶胶颗粒物分级采集的要求.     

PM10-PM2.5冲击采样器的研制与开发

在颗粒物研究中,分级采样是一种常用的监测方法,而冲击采样器是颗粒物分级采样的重要仪器.根据斯托克斯数,对PM10-PM2.5冲击采样器设计参数进行了详细分析,并对PM10-PM2.5的捕集效率特征进行了分析.结果表明,PM10-PM2.5冲击采样器具备理想的PM10和PM2.5捕集效率,PM10冲击采样器、PM2.5冲击采样器切割粒径分别为9.94、2.43μm,均在其允许误差范围内.     

冲击采样器设计参数分析

在颗粒物研究中 ,分级采样是一种常用的监测方法 ,而冲击采样器是颗粒物分级采样的重要仪器。从颗粒物的受力分析着手 ,得到了冲击采样器重要参数———斯托克斯数的表达式 ,并对TSP、PM1 0 和PM2 5冲击采样器设计参数进行了详细分析 ,得到了采样器设计参数的关系式及相关曲线     

冲击采样器设计参数分析

在颗粒物研究中，分级采样是一种常用的监测方法，而冲击采样器是颗粒物分级采样的重要仪器。从颗粒物的受力分析着手，得到了冲击采样器重要参数——斯托克斯数的表达式，并对TSP、PM10和PM2.5冲击采样器设计参数进行了详细分析，得到了采样器设计参数的关系式及相关曲线。     

固定源烟气颗粒物稀释采样器的设计及应用

自行设计了固定源烟气颗粒物稀释采样器,该系统可以模拟烟气颗粒物在大气中的稀释扩散过程。采样器由稀释箱、清洁空气发生器、流量调节控制箱和真空泵4部分组成,通过控制进出气体流量实现烟道内的颗粒物等速采样。稀释箱设置大颗粒物预分离装置分离大粒子,可有效减小采样器切割负荷。将该系统应用到烟气稀释混合多通道分级采样器技术中,用于锅炉原煤与型煤燃烧特征的研究,获得了可靠的PM10、PM2.5、元素碳(EC)、有机碳(OC)排放数据。     

沧州市郊采暖期大气颗粒物中重金属的粒径分布及健康风险评价

为了解沧州市郊采暖期大气颗粒物中重金属粒径分布和健康风险,于2018年11—12月使用分级撞击式采样器采集大气颗粒物样品(粒径符合总悬浮颗粒物(TSP)标准),采用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱(ICP-OES)测定Fe、Cu、Mn、Pb和Zn含量,利用富集因子法和美国环境保护署推荐的健康风险评价模型,分析重金属主要来源并对...     

燃煤电厂烟气中颗粒物粒径分布特征研究

采用冲击式尘粒分级仪对某燃煤电厂1、3机组静电除尘器进、出口烟气进行监测,分析了烟气中颗粒物排放规律和静电除尘器对不同粒径颗粒物的去除率.结果表明,除尘前烟气中以大粒径颗粒物为主,小粒径颗粒物含量相对较低.静电除尘器对不同粒径颗粒物的去除率差别较大,1、3机组的静电除尘器对平均粒径(d50)≥3.56 μm的颗粒物的去除率均达到99.99%,对d50为1.01 μm的颗粒物的去除率则分别为92.75%、95.69%.除尘后烟气中PM2.5和PM10所占比例迅速增加,燃煤电厂排放的烟气中颗粒物以PM2.5为主.     

大流量冲击式分级采样装置的计算原理及其标定

测定空气介质中悬浮微粒的含量,特别是测定10微米以下飘尘的浓度,是评价大气环境质量的依据。分级采样器在环境保护科学领域内就是承担着这一重要任务。气溶胶是分级采样器的工作对象,气溶胶的形成原因是分级采样器设计原理的重要依据。从医学、卫生、防疫的角度来看,大于10微米的粒子能被人体的上呼吸道阻留,而小于5微米的粒子易进入呼吸道,小于2微米的能     

PM10冲击采样器切割头设计参数对切割粒径的影响

本文从颗粒在气流中的受力情况分析入手 ,得到冲击采样器中喷嘴喷出后颗粒的运动轨迹方程以及运动轨迹与采样器切割头设计参数的关系式。分析了PM10空气采样器的切割原理 ,并利用数值计算研究颗粒在不同的流量、喷嘴尺寸及喷嘴与冲击板的距离下的运动轨迹 ,从而得到切割头设计参数对切割粒径的影响     

大气飘尘和总悬浮颗粒物中元素成分的差异

在大气监测中,由于飘尘采样器一般不带尘粒分级器,实际上采集的是总悬浮颗粒物(或简称 TSP)。空气中粒径较小的飘尘能进入呼吸系统,对人体健康产生危害。近年来,研究的重点从 TSP 转到飘尘,各种尘粒分级     

Technique for Measuring Dust Collector Efficiency As a Function of Particle Size

With a specially designed generator, producing an aerosol of concentration, chemical composition, and size distribution similar to incinerator aerosols, a scrubber was tested in the laboratory by sampling before and after the collector. Using an Andersen Sampler as a 7 stage cascade impactor the efficiency for 7 different size classes was determined. This technique provides a rapid and simple method for evaluating the performance of a collector as a function of particle size. The multistage impaction classifies the particles according to their aerodynamic behavior. Gravimetric analysis of each stage eliminates the need for tedious counting and sizing.     

Low Flow Rate Sharp Cut Impactors for Indoor Air Sampling: Design and Calibration

Two single round nozzle impactors have been developed for use in Harvard’s indoor air pollution health study. Both impactors operate at flow rates of 4 L/m and are nearly identical, differing only in their cut sizes of 2.5 μm and 10 μm aerodynamic diameters. Two identical cascaded stages of the same cut size are used to obtain sharp cut-off characteristics. The particles are deposited on impaction plates made of oil impregnated, porous material to reduce particle bounce and are discarded. Only the particles collected on the afterfilter are analyzed. Special care has been taken to collect the particles uniformly on the afterfilter to aid in particle analysis.

The jmpactors were calibrated with a vibrating orifice monodisperse aerosol generator. However, due to the sharp cut of the impactors, doublets and triplets in the calibration aerosols, even in small quantities, gave erroneous calibration curves. Therefore, the number of doublets and triplets in the challenging aerosols were measured and appropriate corrections made to the calibration curves.     

Local circulation and aerosol water-soluble ions--a case study in Taiwan during Mei-yu season

The Mei-yu (plum rain) season is a short but important period when the weather changes from spring to summer in Taiwan. In this study, size-segregated aerosols were collected alternately at 5 sampling sites in northwestern Taiwan from June 16 to 24, 1994. For the first time in Taiwan, this study revealed the aerosol mass spectra and water-soluble ions in the Mei-yu season. For all samples, a bi-modal aerosol mass spectra was found with modal diameters at 3.2 and 0.32 microm, respectively. The aerosol samples were able to be divided into different groups to show their mass and ion spectra according to the calculated 5-hr backward air trajectory. The utilization of enrichment factors showed that aerosol Cl-, Na+, and Mg2+ for all sizes, and super-micron SO4(2-) were related to the sea. Both the scheme of "chlorine loss" (Ohta and Okita, 1990) and a multivariate analysis (Thurston and Spengler, 1985) for categorizing water-soluble ions showed that sea-salts were major contributors in the prevalence of a sea breeze. In contrast, the secondary salts were significant for land breeze and a mix of land-sea breeze. In conclusion, the influence of local circulation on the distribution of aerosol mass and ionic species was found to be prominent.     

The Mass Distribution of Large Atmospheric Particles

This paper describes the results of a study to determine the total mass and the mass distribution of atmospheric aerosols, especially that mass associated with particles greater than 10 μm diameter. This study also determined what fraction of the total aerosol mass a standard high-volume air sampler collects and what fraction and size interval settle out on a dust fall plate. A special aerosol sampling system was designed for this study to obtain representative samples of large airborne particles. A suburban sampling site was selected because no local point sources of aerosols existed nearby. Samples were collected under various conditions of wind velocity and direction to obtain measurements on different types of aerosols.

Study measurements show that atmospheric particulate matter has a bimodal mass distribution. Mass associated with large particles mainly ranged from 5 to 100 μm in size, while mass associated with small particles ranged from an estimated 0.03 to 5 μm in size. Combined, these two distributions produced a bimodal mass distribution with a minimum around 5 μm diameter. The high-volume air sampler was found to collect most of the total aerosol mass, not just that fraction normally considered suspended particulate. Dust fall plates did not provide a good or very useful measure of total aerosol mass. The two fundamental processes of aerosol formation, condensation and dispersion appear to account for the formation of a bimodal mass distribution in both natural and anthropogenic aerosols. Particle size distribution measurements frequently are in error because representative samples of large airborne particles are not obtained. Considering this descrepancy, air pollution regulations should specify or be based upon an upper particle size limit.     

Continued development of a general equilibrium model for inorganic multicomponent atmospheric aerosols

A model is presented that predicts the total quantities of ammonium, chloride, nitrate and water contained in atmospheric aerosols, their physical state and their distribution among aerosol particles of different sizes. The model is based on the thermodynamic equilibrium calculation of the ammonium/chloride/nitrate/sodium/sulfate/water system. The existence of water in the aerosol phase at low relative humidities is shown to be explained. Observed aerosol concentrations at Long Beach, California during 30–31 August 1982 are successfully predicted.     

Design and Calibration of A High Volume Cascade Impactor

The purpose of this study was to develop an air sampling device capable of classifying large quantities of airborne particulate matter into discrete size fractions. Such frac-tionation will facilitate chemical analysis of the various particulate pollutants and thereby provide a more realistic assessment of the effects of particulate matter on human beings.

A 30 cfm, 5 stage cascade impactor of the slit-type has been constructed and calibrated. The calibration aerosol consisted of six different sizes of monodispersed methylene blue produced with a spinning disc generator. The test aerosol sizes varied from 1.35 to 14 μm. The calibration was challenged with heterodispersed aerosols of methylene blue, Arizona road dust, and DOP.     

Scavenging of electrified radioactive aerosol

Scavenging by water droplets is a mechanism for aerosol removal near clouds. Numerical methods are developed to quantify the removal of charged radioactive aerosols, including the electrical image force's contribution, attractive at small separations. Charging of radioactive aerosols is found to have significant effects on their collision efficiency and scavenging coefficient. The effect depends on the aerosol charge, and therefore, on the radioactive aerosol's decay rate and number concentration, but it does not depend significantly on the charge carried by the water drops. Scavenging coefficients are calculated for radioactive aerosols. For small particles at low aerosol concentrations (Z∼10–100 cm⁻³), charging can increase the scavenging coefficients by up to an order of magnitude. Electrification will, therefore, encourage the removal of small radioactive aerosols from the atmosphere, more rapidly than equivalent non-radioactive aerosols. The increase in removal at low radioactive-aerosol concentration may account for underpredictions of surface concentrations and will contribute to spatial variations in aerosol removal.     

Experimental Verification of Diffusion Battery Theory

The diffusion battery, an assembly of circular tubes or rectangular channels, is one of the best devices available for measuring the size and size distribution of submicron aerosols in the diameter range 0.002 to 0.2 µ m. The performance of these batteries is known from molecular diffusion theory, but until now has not been checked experimentally in this size range because of the lack of the necessary monodisperse aerosols. Experimental measurements on singly charged monodisperse aerosols from 0.01 µm to 0.1 µ m are described using a General Electric and a Pollak condensation nucleus counter to measure the aerosol penetration through the stages of a set of portable diffusion batteries in series. Particle sizes in the range tested could be selected at will by adjusting the voltage of an electric mobility classifier. The fraction of aerosol of a given size passing through each battery stage was found to agree closely with the penetration calculated from molecular diffusion theory for that size. This shows that the theory is correct and confirms that the aerosol produced by the electric mobility classifier was monodisperse. In addition, it was found that the difference in penetration between a charged versus a neutralized aerosol was insignificant except for the smallest aerosols used.     

On the sensitivity of particle size to relative humidity for Los Angeles aerosols

A TDMA system (Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer; Rader D.J. and McMurry P.H. J. Aerosol Sci. 17, 771–787, 1986) was used to measure the sensitivity of particle size to relative humidity for monodisperse Los Angeles aerosols. Measurements were made at Claremont, CA on 13 days between 19 June and 3 September 1987, in conjunction with the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS). The particle sizes that were studied ranged from 0.05 μm to 0.5 μm diameter at ambient relative humidity (typically 45–65%).The data provide clear evidence that these atmospheric aerosols were externally mixed. Monodisperse ambient aerosols were often found to split into nonhygroscopic (no water uptake) and hygroscopic portions when humidified. An average of 30% of the particles in the 0.2–0.5 μm range were nonhygroscopic. However, the proportion of the particles that was nonhygroscopic varied considerably from day to day and was, on occasion, as high as 70–80% of the particles. There was no clear evidence for nonhygroscopic 0.05 μm particles, but the data are not definitive on this point.The data also show that for the hydrophilic aerosol fraction, the larger particles (0.4–0.5 μm) grew more when humidified than did smaller particles (0.05–0.2 μm). As relative humidities were increased from 50% to 90%, particle diameters grew by average factors of 1.46 ±0.02 (for 0.5 μm particles), 1.49 ± 0.08 (0.4 μm), 1.19 ± 0.08 (0.2 μm) and 1.12 ± 0.05 (0.05 μm). Similarly, when particles were dried from 50% RH to 6–10% RH, particle diameters changed by factors ranging from 0.94 ± 0.03 (0.5 μm) to 0.98 ± 0.01 (0.05 μm).     

Influence of accidental fire on black carbon aerosol concentrations over an urban environment

Carbonaceous aerosols are emitted by combustion sources and may influence the climate by altering the radiation balance of the atmosphere. Carbonaceous particles exist mainly in the accumulation mode and thus may be transported over long distances. The present study deals with the impact of anthropogenic activity associated with accidental fires on the black carbon aerosol concentrations over an urban environment, namely Hyderabad, India. Black carbon aerosol loading in association with meteorological parameters on a normal day, an accident day and a post-accident day have been analysed. Diurnal variations of black carbon aerosols on a normal day suggest that black carbon aerosol concentrations increased by a factor of about 2 during morning and evening hours compared with afternoon hours. A drastic increase in black carbon aerosol loading was found during an accident day compared with a normal day. An immediate return to normal black carbon concentration was found during the post-accident day. Black carbon aerosol loading in relation to rainfall is also discussed in the paper.