Monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from an oil and gas station in northwest China for 1 year

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作者
Zheng, Huang [1 ,2 ]
Kong, Shaofei [1 ]
Xing, Xinli [2 ,3 ]
Mao, Yao [3 ]
Hu, Tianpeng [2 ]
Ding, Yang [2 ]
Li, Gang [4 ]
Liu, Dantong [5 ]
Li, Shuanglin [1 ]
Qi, Shihua [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] China Univ Geosci, Sch Environm Studies, Dept Atmospher Sci, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China
[2] China Univ Geosci, Sch Environm Studies, Dept Environm Sci & Technol, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China
[3] China Univ Geosci, State Key Lab Biogeol & Environm Geol, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China
[4] Karamay Environm Monitoring Ctr Stn, Karamay 834000, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Manchester, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
关键词
YANGTZE-RIVER DELTA; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS; AMBIENT NONMETHANE HYDROCARBONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL OZONE FORMATION; MOTOR-VEHICLE EMISSIONS; HEALTH-RISK ASSESSMENT; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; CHEMICAL-CHARACTERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL DATA;
D O I
10.5194/acp-18-4567-2018
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Oil and natural gas are important for energy supply around the world. The exploring, drilling, transportation and processing in oil and gas regions can release a lot of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). To understand the VOC levels, compositions and sources in such regions, an oil and gas station in northwest China was chosen as the research site and 57 VOCs designated as the photochemical precursors were continuously measured for an entire year (September 2014-August 2015) using an online monitoring system. The average concentration of total VOCs was 297 +/- 372 ppbv and the main contributor was alkanes, accounting for 87.5% of the total VOCs. According to the propylene-equivalent concentration and maximum incremental reactivity methods, alkanes were identified as the most important VOC groups for the ozone formation potential. Positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis showed that the annual average contributions from natural gas, fuel evaporation, combustion sources, oil refining processes and asphalt (anthropogenic and natural sources) to the total VOCs were 62.6 +/- 3.04, 21.5 +/- .99, 10.9 +/- 1.57, 3.8 +/- 0.50 and 1.3 +/- 0.69 %, respectively. The five identified VOC sources exhibited various diurnal patterns due to their different emission patterns and the impact of meteorological parameters. Potential source contribution function (PSCF) and concentration-weighted trajectory (CWT) models based on backward trajectory analysis indicated that the five identified sources had similar geographic origins. Raster analysis based on CWT analysis indicated that the local emissions contributed 48.4-74.6% to the total VOCs. Based on the high-resolution observation data, this study clearly described and analyzed the temporal variation in VOC emission characteristics at a typical oil and gas field, which exhibited different VOC levels, compositions and origins compared with those in urban and industrial areas.
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页码:4567 / 4595
页数:29
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