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AEROSOL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 42, 期 11, 页码 884-898出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/02786820802356797
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The Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) is a useful tool to study ambient particles. To be quantitative, the mass or (number) of particles detected by the AMS relative to the mass (or number) of particles sampled by the AMS, or the AMS collection efficiency (CE), must be known. Here we investigated the effect of particulate phase on AMS CE for ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, mixed ammonium nitrate/ammonium sulfate, and ammonium sulfate particles coated with an organic liquid. Dry, solid ammonium sulfate particles were sampled with a CE of 24 +/- 3%. Liquid droplets and solid particles that were thickly coated with a liquid organic were collected with a CE of 100%. Mixed phase particles, solid particles thinly coated with liquid organic, and metastable aqueous ammonium sulfate droplets had intermediate CEs. The higher CEs for liquid particles compared with solid particles were attributed to wet or coated particles tending to stick upon impact with the AMS vaporizer, while a significant fraction of solid particles bounced prior to vaporization/detection. The consistency of single particle signals indicated that the phase (and hence CE) of mixed component particles did not affect the AMS sensitivity to a particular chemical species once volatilization occurred. Particle phase might explain a significant fraction of the variable AMS CEs reported in the literature. For example, ambient particles that were liquid (e.g., composition dominated by ammonium nitrate or acidic sulfate) have been reported to be sampled with 100% CE. In contrast, most ambient particle measurements report CEs of <100% (typically similar to 50%).
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