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AEROSOL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 68-79Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/02786820500466591
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The electrical low pressure impactor (ELPI) is a useful tool for recording transient particle size distributions, such as in motor vehicle emissions. But for sub-micron aerosols, the straightforward mass weighting and integration of these size distributions overestimates the particulate matter ( PM) mass by a factor of two or more. The present article examines the sources of this discrepancy and develops an analysis that allows quantitative PM mass measurement with an accuracy of about 20%. This procedure is applied to measure motor vehicle PM emissions, and the results are compared with filter-based gravimetric determinations. Good agreement is achieved for diesel and direct injection gasoline vehicles. For particulate trap equipped diesel vehicles and conventional gasoline vehicles, the PM mass recorded by the ELPI is often substantially lower than the filter based mass owing to the gaseous adsorption artifact of the latter. Accurate work at very low emissions levels, less than similar to 1 mg/mi, requires further study of how reliably the ELPI can provide semivolatile nanoparticle mass as well as an improved understanding of filter-based vehicle exhaust measurement.
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