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CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 829-832Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2013.05.029
Keywords
VOC; Source apportionment; Coal combustion; Transport
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- Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars [41125018]
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an important role in ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation, but VOCs sources during winter are not fully understood. To investigate VOCs sources during winter, mixing ratios of C2-C12 VOCs were measured at an urban site in Beijing from December 29, 2011 to January 17, 2012. Correlation analysis of toluene to benzene and i-pentane to n-pentane suggest that coal combustion could also be an important source for VOCs besides vehicular emissions. Source apportionment results show that coal combustion and vehicular emissions contributed 28%-39% and 31%-45% to ambient VOCs during winter, respectively. Backward trajectory analyses demonstrated that contributions from the burning of coal were higher when air masses came from southern regions outside Beijing. Close attention should be paid to VOCs emissions from coal combustion in Beijing city and the vicinity to the South. (C) 2013 Min Shao. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.
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