Fuel composition and secondary organic aerosol formation: Gas-turbine exhaust and alternative aviation fuels

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 8493-8501

  Miracolo, Marissa A ^a   Drozd, Greg T ^a   Jathar, Shantanu H ^a   Presto, Albert A ^a   Lipsky, Eric M ^b   Corporan, Edwin ^c   Robinson, Allen L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION FUEL; BLEND FUELS; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; FISCHER TROPSCH; FT FUEL; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL REFORMULATIONS; HIGH LOAD; ORGANICS; PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS; PM EMISSIONS; PM FORMATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SECONDARY PARTICULATES; SMOG CHAMBERS; SYNTHETIC JETS;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; EXHAUST SYSTEMS (ENGINE); EXPERIMENTS; GAS TURBINES; JET FUEL;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS;

FUEL;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRCRAFT EMISSION; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; GAS TURBINE POWER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOLS; AVIATION; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84864670330     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300350c     Document Type: Article

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