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COMPARISON OF MEASUREMENT OF AMBIENT PARTICLE NITRATE WITH SEMI-CONTINUOPUS INSTRUMENTS
Citation:
Long, R. W. AND W A. McClenny. COMPARISON OF MEASUREMENT OF AMBIENT PARTICLE NITRATE WITH SEMI-CONTINUOPUS INSTRUMENTS. Presented at Symposium on Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology, Research Triangle Park, NC, April 20-22, 2004.
Impact/Purpose:
1. Provide the Agency with semi-continuous and real-time instrumentation for its monitoring of ozone, ozone precursors, and reaction products of ozone formation.
2. Provide the Agency with semi-continuous and real-time instrumentation for its monitoring of water-soluble PM components and water-soluble atmospheric gases.
Description:
Comparisons between two different semi-continuos monitors of ambient level particulate nitrate are interpreted for both field and laboratory studies. One instrument involves flash vaporization of impacted particulate nitrate to form a combination of NO and NO2 gases which are detected as NO in a chemiluminescence monitor. The second instrument involves the collection of particulate nitrate in a mist chamber with subsequent analysis of nitrate ions by ion chromatography (IC). Ambient measurements in Rubidoux, CA during July 2003 as well as measurements in the EPA research laboratories at Research Triangle Park, NC suggest the occurrence of decreased instrumental response related to particle bound water (or other matrix) content for the monitor using flash vaporization. Both Ambient and laboratory experimental results are interpreted.
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