Journal
AEROSOL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 7, Pages 843-852Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2019.1612512
Keywords
Paul Ziemann
Categories
Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [16H05620, 17H01862]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H01862, 16H05620] Funding Source: KAKEN
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Thermal desorption aerosol mass spectrometers (TDAMSs) with electron ionization are widely used to quantitatively measure aerosol chemical compositions. The physical and chemical mechanisms affecting the ionization efficiency of evolved gas molecules are not fully understood. We have developed a numerical model for simulating the dynamics of gas molecules evolved from aerosol particles. The simulation model is composed of two main sections. The first section simulates the elastic collisions of the evolved gas molecules in a small region near the vaporization source (collision domain), where the mean free paths of the molecules are much shorter than those in the surrounding high vacuum environment. The second section simulates the free-molecular dynamics from the boundary of the first section to the ionizer. The ionization efficiencies of ammonia and hydrogen iodide molecules that evolved from ammonium iodide particles were evaluated. Our results suggest that the molecular collisions during the early stage of plume expansion and possible changes in the molecular velocities induced by these collisions could be an important mechanism affecting the observed variability in the ionization efficiency. However, the physical and chemical processes of the vaporization and ionization of aerosol particles in TDAMSs may be too complex to be quantitatively reproduced using simplified numerical models. Copyright (c) 2019 American Association for Aerosol Research
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available