Atmospheric Chemistry of Perfluorinated Carboxylic Acids:  Reaction with OH Radicals and Atmospheric Lifetimes

2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Hurley ◽  
M. P. Sulbaek Andersen ◽  
T. J. Wallington ◽  
D. A. Ellis ◽  
J. W. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acids ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Perfluorinated Carboxylic Acids

scholarly journals Atmospheric chemistry of carboxylic acids: microbial implication versus photochemistry

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 4881-4911 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Vaïtilingom ◽  
T. Charbouillot ◽  
L. Deguillaume ◽  
R. Maisonobe ◽  
M. Parazols ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acids ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Cloud Water ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Chemical Transformations ◽  
Bacterial Strains ◽  
Active Biomass ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Pure Cultures

Abstract. Clouds are multiphasic atmospheric systems in which the dissolved organic compounds, dominated by carboxylic acids, are subject to multiple chemical transformations in the aqueous phase. Among them, solar radiation, by generating hydroxyl radicals (•OH), is considered as the main catalyzer of the reactivity of organic species in clouds. We investigated to which extent the active biomass existing in cloud water represents an alternative route to the chemical reactivity of carboxylic acids. Pure cultures of seventeen bacterial strains (Arthrobacter, Bacillus, Clavibacter, Frigoribacterium, Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas and Rhodococcus), previously isolated from cloud water and representative of the viable community of clouds were first individually incubated in two artificial bulk cloud water solutions at 17 °C and 5 °C. These solutions mimicked the chemical composition of cloud water from "marine" and "continental" air masses, and contained the major carboxylic acids existing in the cloud water (i.e. acetate, formate, succinate and oxalate). The concentrations of these carboxylic compounds were monitored over time and biodegradation rates were determined. In average, they ranged from 2 ×10−19 for succinate to 1 × 10−18 mol cell−1 s−1 for formate at 17 °C and from 4 × 10−20 for succinate to 6 × 10−19 mol cell−1 s−1 for formate at 5 °C, with no significant difference between "marine" and "continental" media. In parallel, irradiation experiments were also conducted in these two artificial media to compare biodegradation and photodegradation of carboxylic compounds. To complete this comparison, the photodegradation rates of carboxylic acids by •OH radicals were calculated from literature data. Inferred estimations suggested a significant participation of microbes to the transformation of carboxylic acids in cloud water, particularly for acetate and succinate (up to 90%). Furthermore, a natural cloud water sample was incubated (including its indigenous microflora); the rates of biodegradation were determined and compared to the photodegradation rates involving •OH radicals. The biodegradation rates in "natural" and "artificial" cloud water were in the same order of magnitude; this confirms the significant role of the active biomass in the aqueous reactivity of clouds.

Atmospheric Chemistry of CH3CH2OCH3: Kinetics and Mechanism of Reactions with Cl Atoms and OH Radicals

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen ◽  
Sissel Bjørn Svendsen ◽  
Freja From Østerstrøm ◽  
Ole John Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Kinetics And Mechanism ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Cl Atoms

Atmospheric chemistry of trans-CF3CHCHCl: Kinetics of the gas-phase reactions with Cl atoms, OH radicals, and O3

2008 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.P. Sulbaek Andersen ◽  
E.J.K. Nilsson ◽  
O.J. Nielsen ◽  
M.S. Johnson ◽  
M.D. Hurley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Cl Atoms

Atmospheric Chemistry of 2,3-Pentanedione: Photolysis and Reaction with OH Radicals

2011 ◽  
Vol 115 (33) ◽  
pp. 9160-9168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emese Szabó ◽  
Mokhtar Djehiche ◽  
Matthieu Riva ◽  
Christa Fittschen ◽  
Patrice Coddeville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Oh Radicals

scholarly journals HPLC determination of perfluorinated carboxylic acids with fluorescence detection

2010 ◽  
Vol 172 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 409-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Poboży ◽  
Edyta Król ◽  
Lena Wójcik ◽  
Mariusz Wachowicz ◽  
Marek Trojanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acids ◽  
Fluorescence Detection ◽  
Hplc Determination ◽  
Perfluorinated Carboxylic Acids

Atmospheric Chemistry of Pentafluorophenol: Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reactions of Cl Atoms and OH Radicals

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (47) ◽  
pp. 10315-10322
Author(s):  
Freja Hasager ◽  
Simone Thirstrup Andersen ◽  
Sofie Askjaer Hass ◽  
Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen ◽  
Ole John Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Kinetics And Mechanism ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Cl Atoms

scholarly journals Evaluating the measurement interference of wet rotating-denuder–ion chromatography in measuring atmospheric HONO in a highly polluted area

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 6737-6748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Xu ◽  
Yuliang Liu ◽  
Wei Nie ◽  
Peng Sun ◽  
Xuguang Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ion Chromatography ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Absorption Efficiency ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
East China ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Ambient Atmosphere ◽  
High Concentrations

Abstract. Due to the important contribution of nitrous acid (HONO) to OH radicals in the atmosphere, various technologies have been developed to measure HONO. Among them, wet-denuder–ion-chromatography (WD/IC) is a widely used measurement method. Here, we found interferences with HONO measurements by WD/IC based on a comparison study of concurrent observations of HONO concentrations using a WD/IC instrument (Monitor for AeRosols and Gases in ambient Air, MARGA) and long-path absorption photometer (LOPAP) at the Station for Observing Regional Processes of the Earth System (SORPES) in eastern China. The measurement deviation of the HONO concentration with the MARGA instrument, as a typical instrument for WD/IC, is affected by two factors. One is the change in denuder pH influenced by acidic and alkaline gases in the ambient atmosphere, which can affect the absorption efficiency of HONO by the wet denuder to underestimate the HONO concentration by up to 200 % at the lowest pH. The other is the reaction of NO2 oxidizing SO2 to form HONO in the denuder solution to overestimate the HONO concentration, which can be increased by to 400 % in denuder solutions with the highest pH values due to ambient NH3. These processes are in particularly important in polluted east China, which suffers from high concentrations of SO2, NH3, and NO2. The overestimation induced by the reaction of NO2 and SO2 is expected to be of growing importance with the potentially increased denuder pH due to the decrease in SO2. We further established a method to correct the HONO data measured by a WD/IC instrument such as the MARGA. In case a large amount WD/IC-technique-based instruments are deployed with the main target of monitoring the water-soluble composition of PM2.5, our study can help to obtain a long-term multi-sites database of HONO to assess the role of HONO in atmospheric chemistry and air pollution in east China.

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