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JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Volume 55, Issue 9, Pages 1345-1355Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2005.10464732
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The mass transfer of naphthalene vapor to water droplets in air was studied in the presence of ozone (O-3) in the gas phase. A falling droplet reactor with water droplets of diameters 55, 91, and 182 mu m was used for the study. O-3 reacted with naphthalene at the air-water interface, thereby decreasing the mass transfer resistance and increasing the rate of uptake of naphthalene into the droplet. A Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction mechanism at the air-water interface satisfactorily described the surface reaction. The first-order surface reaction rate constant, k(s), increased with decreasing droplet size. Three organic intermediates were identified in the aqueous phase as a result of ozonation of naphthalene at the surface of the droplet indicating both peroxidic and nonperoxidic routes for ozonation. The presence of an organic carbon surrogate (fulvic acid) increased both the partition constant of naphthalene and the surface reaction rate of O-3. The heterogeneous oxidation of naphthalene by O-3 on the droplet was 15 times faster than the homogeneous oxidation by O-3 in the bulk air phase, whereas it was only 0.08 times the homogeneous gas-phase oxidation by hydroxyl radicals under atmospheric conditions.
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