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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 5137-5149Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-5137-2021
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) through the government of Canada
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This study investigated the atmospheric evolution of cooking emissions and found that fragmentation reactions are key processes in the oxidative aging of cooking emissions. The results suggest that aldehyde precursors play a significant role in the formation and oxidation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA).
Cooking emissions account for a major fraction of urban organic aerosol. It is therefore important to understand the atmospheric evolution in the physical and chemical properties of organic compounds emitted from cooking activities. In this work, we investigate the formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from oxidation of gas-phase organic compounds from heated cooking oil. The chemical composition of cooking SOA is analyzed using thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS). While the particle-phase composition of SOA is a highly complex mixture, we adopt a new method to achieve molecular speciation of the SOA. All the GC-elutable material is classified by the constituent functional groups, allowing us to provide a molecular description of its chemical evolution upon oxidative aging. Our results demonstrate an increase in average oxidation state (from -0.6 to -0.24) and decrease in average carbon number (from 5.2 to 4.9) with increasing photochemical aging of cooking oil, suggesting that fragmentation reactions are key processes in the oxidative aging of cooking emissions within 2 d equivalent of ambient oxidant exposure. Moreover, we estimate that aldehyde precursors from cooking emissions account for a majority of the SOA formation and oxidation products. Overall, our results provide insights into the atmospheric evolution of cooking SOA, a majority of which is derived from gas-phase oxidation of aldehydes.
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