Selected Studies: A Kinetic Mechanism for Predicting Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Toluene oxidation in the presence of NOx and Natural Sunlight
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A kinetic mechanism to predict secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from the photo-oxidation of toluene was developed and aerosol phase chemistry that includes nucleation, gas-particle partitioning and particle phase reactions as well as the gasphase chemistry of toluene and its degradation products were represented. The mechanism was evaluated against experiments obtained from a University of North Carolina (UNC) dual 270 m outdoor Teflon film smog chamber.
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A kinetic mechanism for predicting secondary organic aerosol formation from toluene oxidation in the presence of NOx and natural sunlight
A kinetic mechanism to predict secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from the photo-oxidation of toluene was developed. Aerosol phase chemistry that includes nucleation, gas–particle partitioning and particle-phase reactions as well as the gas-phase chemistry of toluene and its degradation products were represented. The mechanism was evaluated against experimental data obtained from the Uni...
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