| Title: | [Source apportionment of VOCs in the northern suburb of Nanjing in summer] |
| Author(s): | Yang H; Zhu B; Gao JH; Li YY; Xia L; |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0250-3301 (Print) 0250-3301 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Hourly concentrations of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were sampled in August 2012 in the northern suburb of Nanjing. Emissions of VOCs were analyzed by using PMF (positive matrix factorization) and CPF (conditional probability function). The hourly average mixing ratio of the TVOCs in summer was (33.84 +/- 27.77) x 10(-9), with a bimodal diurnal variation trend. 49.3% of the TVOCs were alkanes, 24.4% were alkenes, 18.5% were aromatics and 7.81% were acetylene. Five sources were identified as summer major contributors to ambient VOCs concentrations by PMF. 33.1% of the total VOCs was attributed to vehicle related emissions, 25.8% to fuel evaporation, 23.2% to industrial emissions, 8.1% to solvent evaporation and 9.7% to plant emissions. For alkanes, vehicle emissions, industrial emissions, fuel and solvent evaporation accounted for 23.7%, 35.3%, 31.3% and 2%, respectively. For alkenes, fuel evaporation accounted for 41.1% , industrial emissions for 18.4%, and vehicle emission for 24.3%. Vehicle emission was the major contributor to aromatics, accounting for 49.2%, followed by solvent evaporation, which accounted for 30.8%" |
| Keywords: | Air Pollutants/*analysis Alkanes/analysis Alkenes/analysis China Cities *Environmental Monitoring *Seasons Solvents/analysis Vehicle Emissions Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis; |
| Notes: | "MedlineYang, Hui Zhu, Bin Gao, Jin-Hui Li, Yong-Yu Xia, Li chi China 2014/03/20 Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2013 Dec; 34(12):4519-28" |
