Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 220, Issue -, Pages 883-891Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.107
Keywords
Soot; Air/fuel ratio; Ozone aging; Physicochemical properties; Oxidative potential
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21876003, 21577003, 41421064]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0202200]
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Fuel combustion conditions and atmospheric aging processes can affect the physicochemical properties of soot particles, which further change the oxidative potential (OP) of soot. In this study, we generated two soot samples under higher and lower air/fuel ratio (A/F) conditions, and further treated them with ozone (O-3) at a level similar to that in the polluted atmosphere. The physicochemical properties and OP values (measured by dithiothreitol (DTT) assay, OPDTT) of fresh and ozonised soot samples were compared to investigate the influences of A/F and O-3 aging. Both A/F and O-3 aging significantly affected soot physicochemical properties and OPDTT values. Lower A/F was favourable for generating soot particles containing more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), and light-absorbing organics, but fewer oxygen-containing groups. After O-3 aging, a decline in PAHs and increase in oxygen-containing groups and WSOC were observed in both aged soot samples. In addition, both lower A/F and O-3 aging enhanced soot OPDTT values, Soot generated under lower A/F was more sensitive to O-3 aging, after which there was a significantly greater change in physicochemical characteristics, in turn contributing substantially to the greater OP increase observed in low-A/F soot. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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