4.7 Article Proceedings Paper

A new condensed toluene mechanism for Carbon Bond CB05-TU

Journal

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 44, Issue 40, Pages 5346-5355

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.029

Keywords

Toluene; Chemical mechanism; Carbon Bond; Mechanism evaluation; Ozone

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Toluene is ubiquitous in urban atmospheres and is a precursor to tropospheric ozone and aerosol (smog) An important characteristic of toluene chemistry is the tendency of some degradation products (e g cresols and methyl-catechols) to form organic nitro and nitrate compounds that sequester NOx (NO and NO(2)) from active participation in smog formation Explaining the NOx sinks in toluene degradation has made mechanism development more difficult for toluene than for many other organic compounds Another challenge for toluene is explaining sources of radicals early in the degradation process This paper describes the development of a new condensed toluene mechanism consisting of 26 reactions and evaluates the performance of CB05 with this new toluene scheme (Toluene Update TU) against 38 chamber experiments at 7 different environmental chambers and provides recommendations for future developments CB05 with the current toluene mechanism (CB05-Base) under-predicted the maximum O(3) and O(3) production rate for many of these toluene-NOx chamber experiments especially under low-NOx conditions ([NOx](r=0) < 100 ppb) CB05 with the new toluene mechanism (CB05-TU) includes changes to the yields and reactions of cresols and ring-opening products and showed better performance than CB05-Base in predicting the maximum O(3) O(3) formation rate NOx removal rate and cresol concentration Additional environmental chamber simulations with xylene-NOx experiments showed that the TU mechanism updates tended to improve mechanism performance for xylene (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved

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