Article ; Online: Always Lost but Never Forgotten: Gas-Phase Wall Losses Are Important in All Teflon Environmental Chambers.
Environmental science & technology
2020 Volume 54, Issue 20, Page(s) 12890–12897
Abstract: Yields of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from oxidation of volatile organic compounds are measured in laboratory chambers and then applied in regional and global models. Gas-phase losses to large Teflon-walled environmental chambers have been ... ...
| Abstract | Yields of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from oxidation of volatile organic compounds are measured in laboratory chambers and then applied in regional and global models. Gas-phase losses to large Teflon-walled environmental chambers have been recently shown to reduce SOA yields. Historically, most chambers have operated in batch mode. Increasingly, however, continuous flow (CF) mode is being used, in which reactants and products are continuously introduced and exhausted from the chamber. Recent literature reports indicate a belief that SOA yields measured in CF chambers are not affected by gas-phase wall losses (GWL). Here, we use an experimentally-constrained box model to show that gas-phase wall losses impact both types of chambers when run under similar conditions. We find CF experiments do mitigate some effects of gas-phase wall losses after long (>2 days) experiment run times, but they have significant losses for typical literature experiment times of 1 day. However, this mitigation phenomenon is an experiment- and mechanism-dependent, and GWL still affects the absolute SOA yield. Finally, we show that at condensation sink values higher than the wall loss rate a lack of change in yield vs seed surface area does not necessarily indicate whether GWL affects the experiment and does not suggest the magnitude. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Aerosols/analysis ; Air Pollutants ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Polytetrafluoroethylene ; Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis |
| Chemical Substances | Aerosols ; Air Pollutants ; Volatile Organic Compounds ; Polytetrafluoroethylene (9002-84-0) |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-09-30 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
| ISSN | 1520-5851 |
| ISSN (online) | 1520-5851 |
| DOI | 10.1021/acs.est.0c03381 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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