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Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes
China has experienced severe hazes with high concentrations of particulate matter in recent years. The understanding of the size spectrum evolution of submicron particulate matter is critical to making efficient remediation policies to minimize the regional and global environmental impacts from haze...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32210334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62296-1 |
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author | Zhang, Liyuan Su, Junwei Huang, Yu Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Renjian Wu, Yunfei Zhang, Yue Cheng, Yan He, Yuanping Lee, Shuncheng Yu, Chuck Gu, Zhaolin |
author_facet | Zhang, Liyuan Su, Junwei Huang, Yu Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Renjian Wu, Yunfei Zhang, Yue Cheng, Yan He, Yuanping Lee, Shuncheng Yu, Chuck Gu, Zhaolin |
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description | China has experienced severe hazes with high concentrations of particulate matter in recent years. The understanding of the size spectrum evolution of submicron particulate matter is critical to making efficient remediation policies to minimize the regional and global environmental impacts from hazes. During a time period of about one month, we monitored five severe haze episodes in Xi’an and four severe haze episodes in Beijing, which were characterized by two distinct kinds of aerosol mass concentration growth processes: accumulative-rise and abrupt-rise. A new method was developed to quantitatively evaluate the physical and chemical contributions to growth processes by analysing the size spectrum evolution data. The results showed that the accumulative-rise processes are governed by primary emissions and the abrupt-rise processes are governed by secondary chemical reactions. The population balance equations (PBE) were used to describe the variation of size spectrum of fine particulate matter, and the respective contributions of the physical aggregation rate and the chemical growth rate. The PBE model is solved using the adjustable direct quadrature method of moments (ADQMOM) to simulate the abrupt-rise process of haze development and to calibrate the contribution of the physical and chemical effects on the size spectrum of aerosol particles. |
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spelling | pubmed-70935282020-03-27 Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes Zhang, Liyuan Su, Junwei Huang, Yu Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Renjian Wu, Yunfei Zhang, Yue Cheng, Yan He, Yuanping Lee, Shuncheng Yu, Chuck Gu, Zhaolin Sci Rep Article China has experienced severe hazes with high concentrations of particulate matter in recent years. The understanding of the size spectrum evolution of submicron particulate matter is critical to making efficient remediation policies to minimize the regional and global environmental impacts from hazes. During a time period of about one month, we monitored five severe haze episodes in Xi’an and four severe haze episodes in Beijing, which were characterized by two distinct kinds of aerosol mass concentration growth processes: accumulative-rise and abrupt-rise. A new method was developed to quantitatively evaluate the physical and chemical contributions to growth processes by analysing the size spectrum evolution data. The results showed that the accumulative-rise processes are governed by primary emissions and the abrupt-rise processes are governed by secondary chemical reactions. The population balance equations (PBE) were used to describe the variation of size spectrum of fine particulate matter, and the respective contributions of the physical aggregation rate and the chemical growth rate. The PBE model is solved using the adjustable direct quadrature method of moments (ADQMOM) to simulate the abrupt-rise process of haze development and to calibrate the contribution of the physical and chemical effects on the size spectrum of aerosol particles. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7093528/ /pubmed/32210334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62296-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Liyuan Su, Junwei Huang, Yu Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Renjian Wu, Yunfei Zhang, Yue Cheng, Yan He, Yuanping Lee, Shuncheng Yu, Chuck Gu, Zhaolin Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title | Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title_full | Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title_fullStr | Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title_short | Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
title_sort | examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32210334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62296-1 |
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