A11M-0256
Tracking Gas Phase Composition in Oil evaporation and Oxidation Experiments
Monday, 14 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Omar Amador-Muñoz1, Haofei Zhang1, Pawel K Misztal1, Dave Worton2, Greg Drozd1, Allen H Goldstein1 and Goldstein Research Group, UC Berkeley, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)NPL Management Ltd, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Abstract:
Primary Organic Aerosol (POA) is emitted directly by anthropogenic or natural sources, whereas Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) is formed in the atmosphere through chemical reactions that result from conversion of more volatile species into lower volatility oxidized products and their subsequent condensation to the particulate phase. We studied SOA formation from evaporation of Macondo crude oil (MC 252) using a wind tunnel coupled to a flow tube oxidation reactor. Ozone, UV lights, and water vapor were used to make OH radicals. Organic compounds in the gas phase, both those evaporated from the wind tunnel and those formed in the flow tube oxidation experiments, were monitored using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-qMS and PTR-TOF-MS). We observed approximately 400 different species. Compounds with less than C10 were mostly evaporated in the first 5 hours when maximum SOA formation was also obtained. Hydrocarbons with carbon number (11-14) were still present in the oil after 12 h of continuous evaporation at wind speed of 2 m s-1. We will show the implications of these results for the production of SOA related to the range of evaporated chemical size and reactivity.
