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X-Ray Techniques for Aerosol Sulfur Baseline Assessment Along an Urban Freeway

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Author

  • Roland Akselsson
  • Ken A Hardy
  • Georges G Desaedeler
  • John W Winchester
  • Walter W Berg
  • Timothy B Vandeer Wood
  • J William Nelson
  • L L Spiller
  • W E Wilson

Summary, in English

Atmospheric aerosol particles have been sampled near a Los Angeles freeway and analyzed by proton-induced X-ray emission, PIXE, as a sulfur baseline study in September 1974 before 1975-model automobiles, equipped with catalytic emission control devices, appeared in large numbers. The sampling plan was optimized according to the requirements of X-ray analysis techniques, fluctuations in air flow across the freeway, and the time and particle size resolution of the aerosol sampling equipment. During five selected two-hour intervals with cross wind conditions, particles were collected as a function of size by six cascade impactors operating simultaneously on three towers at 2 and 7 meters above road level 35 meters upwind and 35 meters downwind of the traffic lanes. Particles as a function of time were sampled continuously, for the 100-hour duration of the experiment, from the tree 7-meter heights using time series streaker filter samplers with two-hour time resolution. Precise analysis of S, Cl, K, Ca, Fe, Br, and Pb established relationships which permit estimates to be made of future increases in particulate sulfur as a consequence of increased sulfate emissions from catalytic automobiles

Publishing year

1976

Language

English

Pages

415-425

Publication/Series

Advances in X-Ray Analysis

Volume

19

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

International Centre for Diffraction Data

Topic

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • urban aerosol
  • PIXE
  • particle size fraction
  • elemental composition
  • time resolution

Status

Published