A new condensed toluene mechanism for Carbon Bond: CB05-TU

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 5346-5355

  Whitten, Gary Z ^a   Heo, Gookyoung ^b   Kimura, Yosuke ^b   McDonald Buller, Elena ^b   Allen, David T ^b   Carter, William P L ^c   Yarwood, Greg ^d  

^a Smog Reyes   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

^d ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon Bond; Chemical mechanism; Mechanism evaluation; Ozone; Toluene

Indexed keywords

CARBON BOND; CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FORMATION RATES; MECHANISM DEVELOPMENT; NOX REMOVAL; NOX SINK; PRODUCTION RATES; RING-OPENING PRODUCTS; SMOG FORMATION; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; URBAN ATMOSPHERES;

AIR POLLUTION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHENOLS; XYLENE;

TOLUENE;

CARBON; CRESOL; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL BONDING; CONDENSATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OZONE; RADICAL; SMOG; TOLUENE; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; CB05; CHEMICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING OPENING; SIMULATION;

EID: 77956282467     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.029     Document Type: Article

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