Size distributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - Gas/particle partitioning to urban aerosols

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 759-770

  Venkataraman, Chandra ^a   Thomas, Salimol ^a   Kulkarni, Pramod ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; AEROSOLS; ENTHALPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; VAPORIZATION; VAPORS;

AIRSHED; GAS PARTICLE PARTITIONING; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ORGANIC MATTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AEROSOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA;

AEROSOL; PAH; URBAN AREA;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; INDIA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; URBAN AREA; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0033167846     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8502(98)00761-7     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Aceves, M. and Grimalt, J. O. (1993) Seasonally dependent size distributions of aliphatic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban aerosols from densely populated areas. Envir. Sci. Technol. 27, 2896-2908.
2. Aggarwal, A. L, Raiyani, C. V., Patel, P. D., Shah, P. G. and Chatterjee, S. K. (1982) Assessment of exposure to benzo(a)pyrene in the air for various population groups in Ahmedabad. Atmos. Environ. 16, 867-870.
3. Allen, J. O., Dookeran, N. M., Smith, K. E., Sarofim, A. F., Taghizadeh, K.and Lafleur, A. L.(1996) Measurement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with size segregated atmospheric aerosols in Massachusetts. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30, 1023-1031.
4. Atkinson, R., Arey, J., Winer, A. M., Zielinska, B., Dinoff, T. M., Harger, W. P. and McElroy, P. T. (1998) Final Report, Contract Number A5-185-32, California Air Resources Board, U.S.A.
5. Bidleman, T. F. and Foreman, W. T. (1987) In The chemistry of aquatic pollutants (Edited by Hites and Eisenreich) ACS Advances in Chemistry Series. ACS, New York.
6. Bidleman, T. F., Billings, W. N. and Foreman, W. T. (1986) Vapor-particle partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds: Estimates from field collections. Envir. Sci. Technol. 20, 1038-1043.
7. 10 aerosol in the southern California air quality study. Atmos. Envir. 28, 12, 2061-2080.
8. Coutant, R. W., Brown, L., Chuang, J. C., Riggin, R. M. and Lewis, R. G. (1988) Phase distribution and artifact formation in ambient air sampling for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. Atmos. Envir. 22, 403-409.
9. Dockery, D. W., Pope III, C. A., Xu, X; Spengler, J. D., Ware, J. H., Fay, M. E., Ferris, B. G. and Speizer, F. E. (1993) An association between air pollution and mortality in six U. S. cities. New Engl. J. Med. 329, 1753-1759.
10. Finizio, A., Donald, M., Harner, T. and Bidleman, T. F.(1997) Octanol-air partition coefficient as a predictor of partitioning of semi volatile organic chemicals to aerosols. Atmos. Envir. 31, 2289-2296.
11. Finlayson-Pitts, B. J. and Pitts, J. N. (1986) Atmospheric Chemistry: Fundamentals and Experimental Techniques. Wiley, New York.
12. Harrison, R. M., Smith, D. J. T. and Luhana, L. (1996) Source apportionment of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons collected from an urban location in Birmingham. U. K. Envir. Sci. Technol. 30, 825-832.
13. Heisler, S. L. and Friedlander, S. K. (1977) Gas-to-particle conversion in photochemical smog: Aerosol growth laws and mechanisms for organics. Atmos. Envir. 11, 157-168.
14. Heisler, S. L. Friedlander, S. K. and Husar, R. B. (1973) The relationship of smog aerosol size and chemical element distribution to source characteristics. Atmos. Envir. 7, 633-649.
15. Kamens, R. M., Odum, J. R. and Fan, Z. (1995) Some observations on times to equilibrium for semi-volatile polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environ. Sci. Technol. 29, 43-50.
16. Kao, A. S. and Friedlander, S. K. (1995) Frequency distributions of PM-10 chemical components and their sources. Environ. Sci. Technol. 29, 19-28.
17. Kulkarni, P. S. (1997) M.Tech. thesis, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 93pp.
18. Larson, S. M., Cass, G. R., Hussey, K. J. and Luce, F. (1988) Verification of image processing based visibility models. Environ. Sci. Technol. 22, 629-637.
19. Liang, C., Pankow, J. F., Odum, J. R. and Seinfeld, J. H. (1997) Gas/particle partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds to model inorganic, organic and ambient smog aerosols. Environ. Sci. Technol. 31, 3086-3092.
20. Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y. and Ma, K. C. (1992) The Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, Vols. I and II. Lewis Publishers, Michigan.
21. McMurry, P. H. and Stolzenburg, M. R. (1989) On the sensitivity of particle size to relative humidity for Los Angeles aerosols. Atmos. Environ. 23, 497-507.
22. McMurry, P. H. and Zhang, X. Q. (1989) Size distributions of ambient organic and elemental carbon. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 10, 430-437.
23. Miguel, A. H. and de Andrade, J. B. (1989) Rapid quantification of ten polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in atmospheric aerosols by direct high pressure liquid chromatography separation after ultrasonic acetonitrile extraction. Int. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 35, 35-41.
24. Mohan Rao, A. M., Rajgopalan, R., Doshi, M. H. and Vohra, K. G.(1983) Measurement of benzo(a)pyrene in the ambient air for estimation of carcinogenic risk. Sci. Total Environ. 27, 33-42.
25. Odum, J. R., Yu, J. and Kamens, R. M. (1994) Modeling the mass transfer of semivolatile organics in combustion aerosols. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28, 2278-2285.
26. Pandit, G. G., Sharma, S., Mohan Rao, A. M. and Krishnamoorthy, T. M. (1996) Chromatographic methods for the estimation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in atmospheric particulates. Proc. 5th Nat. Symp. on Environment, pp. 133-136. Calcutta, India.
27. Pankow, J. F. and Bidleman, T. F. (1992) Interdependence of the slopes and intercepts from log-log correlations of measured gas-particle partitioning and vapor pressure - I. Theory and analysis of available data. Atmos Envir. 26A, 1071-1080.
28. Pankow, J. F. (1994) An absorption model of gas/particle partitioning of organic compounds in the atmosphere. Atmos. Envir. 28, 185-188.
29. Pankow, J. F. (1987) Review and comparative analysis of the theories on partitioning between the gas and aerosol particulate phases in the atmosphere. Atmos. Envir. 22, 2275-2283.
30. Pickle, T., Allen, D. T. and Pratsinis, S. E. (1990) The sources and size distributions of aliphatic and carbonyl carbon in Los Angeles aerosol. Atmos. Envir. 24, 2221-2228.
31. Raiyani, C. V., Jani, J. P., Desai, N. M., Shah, P. G. and Kashyap, S. K. (1993b) Levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient environment of Ahmedabad. Ind. J. Environ. Protection 13, 206-215.
32. Raiyani, C. V., Shah, S. H., Desai, N. M., Venkaiah, K., Patel, J. S., Parikh, D. J. and Kashyap, S. K. (1993a) Characterization and problems of indoor pollution due to cooking stove smoke. Atmos. Envir. 27A, 1643-1655.
33. Rogge, W.F, Hildemann, L.M., Mazurek, M.A., Cass, G.R. and Simoneit, B.R.T. (1993) Sources of fine organic aerosol. 4. Particulate abrasion from leaf surfaces of urban plants Environ. Sci. Technol. 27, 2700-2711.
34. Sicre, M. A,. Marty, J. C., Saliot, A., Aparicio, X., Grimalt, J. O. and Albaiges, J.)(1987) Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in different sized aerosols over the Mediterranean sea: Occurrence and origin. Atmos. Envir. 21, 2247-2259.
35. Turner, J. R. and Hering, S. V. (1987) Greased and oiled substrates as bounce free impaction surfaces. J. Aerosol Sci. 18, 215-224.
36. Turpin, B. J. and Huntzicker, J. J. (1991) Secondary formation of organic aerosol in the Los Angeles basin: A descriptive analysis of organic and elemental carbon concentrations. Atmos. Envir. 25A, 207-215.
37. USEPA (1996) Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter. EPA/600/P-95/001aF, Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
38. Vaishali, R., Phadke, K. M., Thakre, R. and Hasan, M. Z. (1997) PAHs in respirable particulate matter of Nagpur city air. J. Ind. Assoc. Entl. Mgmt. 24, 11-16.
39. Venkataraman, C. and Friedlander, S. K. (1994a) Source resolution of fine particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a receptor model modified for reactivity. J. Air Waste Mgmt. Assoc. 44, 1103-1108.
40. Venkataraman, C. and Friedlander, S. K. (1994b) Size distributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and elemental carbon.2.Ambient measurements and effects of atmospheric processes. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28, 563-572.
41. Venkataraman, C. and Friedlander, S. K. (1994c) Size distributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and elemental carbon: 1. Sampling, measurement methods and source characterization. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28, 555-562.
42. Willeke, K. and Whitby, K. T. (1975) Atmospheric aerosols: Size distribution interpretation. J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc. 25, 529-534.
43. Wilson, W. E., Spiller, L. L., Ellestad, T. G., Lamothe, P. J., Dzubay, T. G., Stevens, R. K., Macias, E. S., Fletcher, R. A., Husar, R. D., Whitby, K. T., Kittleson D. B. and Cantrell, B. K. (1977) General motors sulfate dispersion experiment: Summary of EPA measurements. J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc. 27, 46-51.
44. Yamasaki, H., Kuwata, K. and Miyamoto, H. (1982) Effects of ambient temperature on aspects of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environ. Sci. Technol. 16, 189-194.