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J Environ Sci (China)

Title:		Do vehicular emissions dominate the source of C6-C8 aromatics in the megacity Shanghai of eastern China?
Author(s):		Wang H; Wang Q; Chen J; Chen C; Huang C; Qiao L; Lou S; Lu J;
Address:		"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP(3)), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Formation and Prevention of Urban Air Pollution Complex, Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China. Electronic address: wanghl@saes.sh.cn. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Formation and Prevention of Urban Air Pollution Complex, Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP(3)), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.. Electronic address: jmchen@fudan.edu.cn. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Formation and Prevention of Urban Air Pollution Complex, Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China. Electronic address: chench@saes.sh.cn"
Journal Title:		J Environ Sci (China)
Year:		2015
Volume:		20141111
Issue:
Page Number:		290 - 297
DOI:		10.1016/j.jes.2014.05.033
ISSN/ISBN:		1001-0742 (Print) 1001-0742 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The characteristic ratios of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to i-pentane, the indicator of vehicular emissions, were employed to apportion the vehicular and non-vehicular contributions to reactive species in urban Shanghai. Two kinds of tunnel experiments, one tunnel with more than 90% light duty gasoline vehicles and the other with more than 60% light duty diesel vehicles, were carried out to study the characteristic ratios of vehicle-related emissions from December 2009 to January 2010. Based on the experiments, the characteristic ratios of C6-C8 aromatics to i-pentane of vehicular emissions were 0.53 +/- 0.08 (benzene), 0.70 +/- 0.12 (toluene), 0.41 +/- 0.09 (m,p-xylenes), 0.16 +/- 0.04 (o-xylene), 0.023 +/- 0.011 (styrene), and 0.15 +/- 0.02 (ethylbenzene), respectively. The source apportionment results showed that around 23.3% of C6-C8 aromatics in urban Shanghai were from vehicular emissions, which meant that the non-vehicular emissions had more importance. These findings suggested that emission control of non-vehicular sources, i.e. industrial emissions, should also receive attention in addition to the control of vehicle-related emissions in Shanghai. The chemical removal of VOCs during the transport from emissions to the receptor site had a large impact on the apportionment results. Generally, the overestimation of vehicular contributions would occur when the VOC reaction rate constant with OH radicals (kOH) was larger than that of the vehicular indicator, while for species with smaller kOH than the vehicular indicator, the vehicular contribution would be underestimated by the method of characteristic ratios"
Keywords:		Air Pollutants/*analysis China Cities *Environmental Monitoring Gasoline/analysis Vehicle Emissions/*analysis Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis Aromatics Characteristic ratio Non-vehicular emissions Shanghai Vehicular emissions;
Notes:		"MedlineWang, Hongli Wang, Qian Chen, Jianmin Chen, Changhong Huang, Cheng Qiao, Liping Lou, Shengrong Lu, Jun eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Netherlands 2015/01/20 J Environ Sci (China). 2015 Jan 1; 27:290-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jes.2014.05.033. Epub 2014 Nov 11"