On-road exposure to highway aerosols.: 1.: Aerosol and gas measurements

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Kittelson, DB
Watts, WF
Johnson, JP
Remerowki, ML
Ische, EE
Oberdörster, G
Gelein, RA
Elder, A
Hopke, PK
Kim, E
Zhao, W
Zhou, L
Jeong, CH
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, Dept Mech Engn, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Univ Rochester, Dept Environm Med, Rochester, NY USA
[3] Clarkson Univ, Dept Chem Engn, Potsdam, NY USA
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10.1080/08958370490443024
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R99 [毒物学(毒理学)];
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100405 ;
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On-road experiments were conducted to determine the sensitivities of rats to real-world aerosol. This article summarizes the on-road aerosol and gas measurements and provides background information for the companion paper on the rat exposures. Measurements were carried out over 10 days, 6 h/day, driving a route from Rochester to Buffalo. Aerosol instrumentation used in this study included two scanning mobility particle sizers; (SMPS) to determine the aerosol size distribution from 10 to 300 mn, 2 stand-alone condensation particle counters to determine the total aerosol number concentration, and an electrical aerosol detector to determine the aerosol length concentration. A thermal denuder (TD) was used with one of the SMPS instruments to determine the size distribution of the non-volatile fraction. Filter samples were collected and analyzed for elemental carbon, and gas analyzers measured ambient levels of CO, CO2, and NO. Average daily total aerosol number concentration ranged from 200,000 to 560,000 particles/cm(3). Past studies on urban highways have measured total number concentrations ranging between 10(4) and 10(6) particles/cm(3). The average daily NO concentration ranged from 0.10 to 0.24 ppm and the corresponding CO2 concentration ranged from 400 to 420 ppm. The average daily geometric number mean particle size determined by the SMPS ranged from 15 to 20 mn. The TD reduced the average SMPS number concentration between 87 and 95% and the SMPS volume between 54 and 83%, suggesting that most of the particles consisted of volatile material. The TD also increased the geometric number mean diameter from 15 to 20 nm to 30 to 40 nm.
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