期刊
CHEMOSPHERE
卷 299, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134381
关键词
Nitroaromatic compounds; Water-soluble organic carbon; Size distribution; Brown carbon; Biomass burning
资金
- European Union [291823, 47]
- Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0034, P1-0179]
This study investigated the concentrations of nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) in aerosol samples from the urban background environment in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The study found that the concentrations of NACs were higher in winter compared to summer, with wood burning being the main source. The NACs also contributed significantly to the light absorption of the aerosols.
Nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) as important constituents of atmospheric humic-like substances (HULIS) and brown carbon (BrC) affect the Earth's climate and pose a serious environmental hazard. We investigated seasonal size-segregated NACs in aerosol samples from the urban background environment in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Total concentrations of twenty NACs in PM15.6 were on average from 0.51 ng m(-3) (summer) to 109 ng m? 3 (winter), and contributed the most to submicron aerosols (more than 74%). Besides 4-nitrocatechol (4NC) as the prevailing species, methylnitrocatechols (MNCs) and nitrophenols (NPs), we reported on some very rarely mentioned, but also on five novel NACs (i.e., 3H4NBA: 3-hydroxy-4-nitrobenzoic acid, 3MeO4NP: 3-methoxy-4nitrophenol, 4Et5NC: 4-ethyl-5-nitrocatechol, 3Et5NC: 3-ethyl-5-nitrocatechol and 3MeO5NC: 3-methoxy-5nitrocatechol). Concentrations of 3MeO5NC, 4Et5NC and 3Et5NC were enhanced during cold seasons, contributing up to 11% to total NAC in winter. In cold season, NAC size distributions were characterized with the peaks in the broader size range of 0.305-1.01 mu m (accumulation mode), with 4NC and alkyl-nitrocatechols ( n-ary sumation (M/Et) NC) as the most abundant, followed by 4-nitrosyringol, nitrophenols and nitroguaiacols. In spring, a pronounced peak of n-ary sumation (M/Et)NC was observed in the accumulation mode (0.305-0.56 mu m) as well as in the coarse one. A strong correlation of all NACs with n-ary sumation (M/Et)NC and levoglucosan indicates that primary emissions of wood burning were the most important source of NACs, but their secondary formation (e.g., aqueous-phase at higher ambient RH) in cold season could also be a significant one. In warmer season, NACs may be mostly derived from traffic-related aromatic VOCs. The contribution of NACs to the light absorption of the aqueous extracts was up to 10-times higher (contribution to Abs365 up to 31%) than their mass contributions to WSOC (up to 3%) of corresponding size-segregated aerosols, confirming that most of the identified NACs are strong BrC chromophores.
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