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Title: | Measuring OVOCs and VOCs by PTR-MS in an urban roadside microenvironment of Hong Kong : relative humidity and temperature dependence, and field intercomparisons | Authors: | Cui, L Zhang, Z Huang, Y Lee, SC Blake, DR Ho, KF Wang, B Gao, Y Wang, XM Louie, PKK |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Source: | Atmospheric measurement techniques, 2016, v. 9, no. 12, p. 5763-5779 | Abstract: | Volatile organic compound (VOC) control is an important issue of air quality management in Hong Kong because ozone formation is generally VOC limited. Several oxygenated volatile organic compound (OVOC) and VOC measurement techniques - namely, (1) offline 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) cartridge sampling followed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis; (2) online gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detection (FID); and (3) offline canister sampling followed by GC with mass spectrometer detection (MSD), FID, and electron capture detection (ECD) - were applied during this study. For the first time, the proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) technique was also introduced to measured OVOCs and VOCs in an urban roadside area of Hong Kong. The integrated effect of ambient relative humidity (RH) and temperature (T ) on formaldehyde measurements by PTR-MS was explored in this study. A Poly 2-D regression was found to be the best nonlinear surface simulation (r =0.97) of the experimental reaction rate coefficient ratio, ambient RH, and T for formaldehyde measurement. This correction method was found to be better than correcting formaldehyde concentrations directly via the absolute humidity of inlet sample, based on a 2- year field sampling campaign at Mong Kok (MK) in Hong Kong. For OVOC species, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, and MEK showed good agreements between PTRMS and DNPH-HPLC with slopes of 1.00, 1.10, 0.76, and 0.88, respectively, and correlation coefficients of 0.79, 0.75, 0.60, and 0.93, respectively. Overall, fair agreements were found between PTR-MS and online GC-FID for benzene (slope=1.23, r =0.95), toluene (slope=1.01, r =0.96) and C2-benzenes (slope=1.02, r =0.96) after correcting benzene and C2-benzenes levels which could be affected by fragments formed from ethylbenzene. For the intercomparisons between PTR-MS and offline canister measurements by GCMSD/FID/ECD, benzene showed good agreement, with a slope of 1.05 (r =0.62), though PTR-MS had lower values for toluene and C2-benzenes with slopes of 0.78 (r =0.96) and 0.67 (r =0.92), respectively. All in all, the PTR-MS instrument is suitable for OVOC and VOC measurements in urban roadside areas. | Publisher: | Copernicus Gesellschaft | Journal: | Atmospheric measurement techniques | ISSN: | 1867-1381 | EISSN: | 1867-8548 | DOI: | 10.5194/amt-9-5763-2016 | Rights: | © Author(s) 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The following publication: Cui, L., Zhang, Z., Huang, Y., Lee, S. C., Blake, D. R., Ho, K. F., Wang, B., Gao, Y., Wang, X. M., and Louie, P. K. K.: Measuring OVOCs and VOCs by PTR-MS in an urban roadside microenvironment of Hong Kong: relative humidity and temperature dependence, and field intercomparisons, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5763-5779 is available at https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5763-2016, 2016. |
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