| Title: | "On-line fast analysis of light hydrocarbons, PAH and radicals by molecular-beam time of flight mass spectrometry" |
| Author(s): | Apicella B; Tregrossi A; Oliano MM; Russo C; Ciajolo A; |
| Address: | "Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per L'Energia e La Mobilita Sostenibili, STEMS-CNR, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy. Electronic address: barbara.apicella@stems.cnr.it. Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per L'Energia e La Mobilita Sostenibili, STEMS-CNR, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130174 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1298 (Electronic) 0045-6535 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Volatile organic compounds (VOC) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), emitted in the environment from a wide range of combustion sources, are hazardous to human health and considered important precursors of both primary and secondary particulate pollutants. In the present work, light hydrocarbons up to C(9), as main components of combustion-derived VOC, and PAH produced in fuel-rich conditions of premixed ethylene flames were analyzed by implementing a molecular-beam time of flight mass spectrometer (MB-TOFMS), purposely built for on-line fast monitoring of the environmental impact of combustion systems. The reliability of the MB-TOFMS was preliminarily verified on a slightly-sooting flame, comparing the results with those obtained by batch sampling and gas chromatographic techniques. Electron ionization (EI) and multi-photon ionization (MPI) were used as MB-TOFMS sources and tested on combustion gases of a no-sooting premixed ethylene flame where VOC and PAH are present in traces not detectable with batch sampling and conventional analytical techniques. The mass identification accuracy was improved and guaranteed by systematically performing internal mass calibration, exploiting the formation of 'in situ' clusters from combustion water in the molecular beam apparatus. Selective and sensitive monitoring of light hydrocarbons and PAH, derived from oxidation and pyrolysis reactions featuring combustion, was shown to be especially effective when using the MB-TOFMS equipped with MPI source. This technique showed to be effective also for the detection of radical species that are important for the risk assessment of aerosol and fundamental understanding of aerosol chemistry at a molecular level" |
| Keywords: | *Air Pollutants/analysis Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Humans Mass Spectrometry *Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis Reproducibility of Results Flame Molecular beam Pah Pollutant emissions Radicals Time of flight mass spectrometry Voc; |
| Notes: | "MedlineApicella, Barbara Tregrossi, Antonio Oliano, Maria Maddalena Russo, Carmela Ciajolo, Anna eng England 2021/03/21 Chemosphere. 2021 Aug; 276:130174. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130174. Epub 2021 Mar 10" |
