Method for determining a wide range of volatile organic compounds in the long-term orbiting stations gas environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Vasilievich Novikov ◽  
Sergey Yurievich Semenov ◽  
Alexey Gennadievich Fomin ◽  
Tatyana Vyacheslavovna Yankova ◽  
Viktor Viktorovich Tatarinov
Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 4370
Author(s):  
Liping Fang ◽  
Linyan Huang ◽  
Gang Yang ◽  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Haiping Liu ◽  
...  

Water matrix certified reference material (MCRM) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is used to provide quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) during the analysis of VOCs in water. In this research, a water MCRM of 28 VOCs was developed using a “reconstitution” approach by adding VOCs spiking, methanol solution into pure water immediately prior to analysis. The VOCs spiking solution was prepared gravimetrically by dividing 28 VOCs into seven groups, then based on ISO Guide 35, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to investigate the homogeneity and long-term stability. The studies of homogeneity and long-term stability indicated that the batch of VOCs spiking solution was homogeneous and stable at room temperature for at least 15 months. Moreover, the water MCRM of 28 VOCs was certified by a network of nine competent laboratories, and the certified values and expanded uncertainties of 28 VOCs ranged from 6.2 to 17 μg/L and 0.5 to 5.3 μg/L, respectively.


SpringerPlus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Araceli Bracho-Nunez ◽  
Nina Knothe ◽  
Wallace R Costa ◽  
Liberato R Maria Astrid ◽  
Betina Kleiss ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 32649-32701 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Li ◽  
Q. Zhang ◽  
D. G. Streets ◽  
K. B. He ◽  
Y. F. Cheng ◽  
...  

Abstract. An accurate speciation mapping of non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emissions has an important impact on the performance of chemical transport models (CTMs) in simulating ozone mixing ratios and secondary organic aerosols. In this work, we developed an improved speciation framework to generate model-ready anthropogenic Asian NMVOC emissions for various gas-phase chemical mechanisms commonly used in CTMs by using an explicit assignment approach and updated NMVOC profiles, based on the total NMVOC emissions in the INTEX-B Asian inventory for the year 2006. NMVOC profiles were selected and aggregated from a wide range of new measurements and the SPECIATE database. To reduce potential uncertainty from individual measurements, composite profiles were developed by grouping and averaging source profiles from the same category. The fractions of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOC) were corrected during the compositing process for those profiles which used improper sampling and analyzing methods. Emissions of individual species were then lumped into species in different chemical mechanisms used in CTMs by applying mechanism-dependent species mapping tables, which overcomes the weakness of inaccurate mapping in previous studies. Gridded emissions for eight chemical mechanisms are developed at 30 min × 30 min resolution using various spatial proxies and are provided through the website: http://mic.greenresource.cn/intex-b2006. Emission estimates for individual NMVOC species differ between one and three orders of magnitude for some species when different sets of profiles are used, indicating that source profile is the most important source of uncertainties of individual species emissions. However, those differences are diminished in lumped species as a result of the lumping in the chemical mechanisms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1731-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad M. Ayad ◽  
Nagy L. Torad ◽  
Islam M. Minisy ◽  
Raja Izriq ◽  
El-Zeiny M. Ebeid

Geoderma ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 344 ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Giagnoni ◽  
Anita Maienza ◽  
Silvia Baronti ◽  
Francesco Primo Vaccari ◽  
Lorenzo Genesio ◽  
...  

Indoor Air ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per A. Clausen ◽  
Peder Wolkoff ◽  
Erik Hoist ◽  
Peter A. Nielsen

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 2209-2232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Li ◽  
Yafang Cheng ◽  
Uwe Kuhn ◽  
Rongjuan Xu ◽  
Yudong Yang ◽  
...  

Abstract. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play a key role in atmospheric chemistry. Emission and deposition on soil have been suggested as important sources and sinks of atmospheric trace gases. The exchange characteristics and heterogeneous chemistry of VOCs on soil, however, are not well understood. We used a newly designed differential coated-wall flow tube system to investigate the long-term variability of bidirectional air–soil exchange of 13 VOCs under ambient air conditions of an urban background site in Beijing. Sterilized soil was investigated to address physicochemical processes and heterogeneous/multiphase reactions independently from biological activity. Most VOCs revealed net deposition with average uptake coefficients (γ) in the range of 10−7–10−6 (referring to the geometric soil surface area), corresponding to deposition velocities (Vd) of 0.0013–0.01 cm s−1 and soil surface resistances (Rc) of 98–745 s cm−1, respectively. Formic acid, however, was emitted at a long-term average rate of ∼6×10-3 nmol m−2 s−1, suggesting that it was formed and released upon heterogeneous oxidation of other VOCs. The soil–atmosphere exchange of one individual VOC species can be affected by both its surface degradation/depletion caused by surface reactions and by competitive uptake or heterogeneous formation/accommodation of other VOC species. Overall, the results show that physicochemical processing and heterogeneous oxidation on soil and soil-derived dust can act as a sink or as a source of atmospheric VOCs, depending on molecular properties and environmental conditions.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Thiel ◽  
Jan-Peter Duda ◽  
Alfons M. van den Kerkhof ◽  
Joachim Reitner ◽  
Helge Mißbach

<p>The c. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation of the East Pilbara Craton (Western Australia) contains large amounts of blackish barite. These rocks produce an intense sulfidic odor when crushed, resulting from abundant primary fluid inclusions. In part, the black barites are interbedded with sulfidic stromatolites. Using Raman spectroscopy, microthermometry, and two different online GC–MS approaches, we characterized in detail the chemical composition of the barite-hosted fluid inclusions. Our GC–MS techniques were based on (i) thermodecrepitation at 150-250°C and (ii) solid phase microextraction (SPME)–GC–MS at reduced temperature (50°C), thereby minimizing external contamination and artefact formation. Major fluid inclusion classes yielded mainly H<sub>2</sub>O, CO<sub>2</sub>, and H<sub>2</sub>S in varying abundance, along with minor amounts of COS and  CS<sub>2</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>, and CH<sub>4</sub> (< 1%). Notably, we also detected a wide range of volatile organic compounds, including short–chain ketones and aldehydes, thiophenes, and various organic (poly)sulfides. Some of these compounds (CH<sub>3</sub>SH, acetic acid) have previously been invoked as initials agents for carbon fixation under primordial conditions, but up to now their presence had not been observed in Precambrian materials. Based on our findings, we hypothesize that hydrothermal seepage of organic and inorganic compounds during Dresser times provided both, catabolic and anabolic substrates for early microbial metabolisms.</p>


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