A team of researchers is modeling ozone formation induced by volatile organic compounds. NORTHWESTERN CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING MECHANISTIC MODEL OF OZONE FORMATION
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Objective: Emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) into the atmosphere leads to increases in the concentration of ambient ozone, a major component of photochemical smog. Therefore, the ability to determine the contribution of a selected VOC to ozone formation would be extremely valuable for both environmental and industrial reasons. To this end, a promising strategy is to create detailed mechanistic models based on kinetics and photochemistry, from which predictions of ozone production can be made.
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