Laboratory Investigation of Organic Aerosol Formation from Aromatic Hydrocarbons ( DOE Award
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Work has been accomplished to develop laboratory instrumentation to conduct kinetic and mechanistic measurements of the aromatic hydrocarbon reactions initiated by OH, using chemical ionization (CIMS) and proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTRMS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Experiments have been carried to detect intermediate radicals for the OH-aromatic hydrocarbon reactions using a high-pressure flow reactor coupled to CIMS detection at MIT. A PTR-MS has been developed at Texas A&M for the subcontract of the project. The PTRMS has been used to quantify product yields for compounds such oxygenated and nitrated organic compounds.
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