Morphological and semi-quantitative characteristics of diesel soot agglomerates emitted from commercial vehicles and a dynamometer

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 452-457

  LUO, Chin Hsiang ^a   LEE, Whei May ^b   LIAW, Jiun Jian ^c  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

carbon; diesel soot; fractal morphology; fractional Brownian motion

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; BIO FUELS; CARBON CONTENTS; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; DIESEL SOOT; DIESEL SOOT AGGLOMERATES; DIESEL VEHICLES; DOMINANT MODES; EDS ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL CONTENTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETERS; FRACTAL LIKES; FRACTAL MORPHOLOGY; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; HURST COEFFICIENTS; MASS CONCENTRATIONS; MICRO-ORIFICE UNIFORM DEPOSIT IMPACTOR; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PARAMETERIZED; ROAD VEHICLES; SEM IMAGES; SEM-EDS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SURFACE TEXTURES; TEM;

AGGLOMERATION; AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CARBON CLUSTERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DC MOTORS; DUST; DYNAMOMETERS; ENGINE CYLINDERS; EXPLOSIVE ACTUATED DEVICES; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROADS AND STREETS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; SOOT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TAXICABS; TRUCKS; VEHICLES;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE; AUTOMOBILE; BROWNIAN MOTION; DIESEL ENGINE; MORPHOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOOT;

ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARTICLE SIZE; SOOT; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 64549129074     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(08)62291-3     Document Type: Article

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