Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 793, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148348
Keywords
Volatile organic compounds; Source profile; Ozone formation potential; Mobile source; Solvent use; Industrial processes
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC0213904]
- Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province [2019B110206001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91744310, 41627809]
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This study established the latest VOCs source profiles dataset in China by integrating various sources, revealing significant variations in VOCs composition characteristics and the high percentage of OVOCs in cooking and other sources. Differences in VOCs chemical groups and individual species were observed between this dataset and the widely-used U.S. SPECIATE database, emphasizing the importance of developing domestic VOCs source profiles.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) source profiles can be used for a number of purposes, such as creating speciated air pollutant emission inventories and providing inputs to receptor and air quality models. In this study, we first collected and schematically evaluated more than 500 Chinese domestic source profiles from literature and field measurements, and then established a most up-to-date dataset of VOCs source profiles in China by integrating 363 selective VOCs profiles into 101 sector-based source profiles. The profile dataset covers eight major source categories and contains 447 VOCs species including non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) species and oxygenated VOCs (OVOCs) species. The results shown that (1) VOCs composition characteristics exhibit variations for most Level-II source sectors and Level-III sub-sectors even under the same Level-I source category; (2) OVOCs, which were significantly missing in previous profiles, account for more than 95% in cooking and 20-40% in non-road mobile, biomass burning and solvent use sources; (3) aromatics account for 20%-40% in most emission sources except cooking source, alkenes and alkynes account for similar to 20% in combustion sources (stationary combustion, mobile source and biomass burning), alkanes are abundant in gasoline-related emission sources(on-road mobile source and fuel oil storage and transportation); (4) missing OVOCs species could bring 30%-50% to ozone formation potentials in most emission sources; and (5) there are considerable differences in VOCs chemical groups and individual species for most emission sources between this dataset and the widely used U.S. SPECIATE database, indicating the importance of developing domestic VOCs source profiles. The dataset developed in this study can help support reactive VOCs species-based ozone control strategy and provide domestic profile data for source apportionment and air quality modeling in China and other countries or regions with similar emission source characteristics. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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