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Molecular structure impacts on secondary organic aerosol formation from glycol ethers

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT (2018)

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ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 206-215

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.12.025

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Glycol ether; Molecular structure; Consumer products; Photooxidation; Secondary organic aerosol; NOx; HR-ToF-AMS

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Environmental Sciences Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

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  1. California Air Resource Board [13-302]
  2. W. M. Keck Foundation

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Glycol ethers, a class of widely used solvents in consumer products, are often considered exempt as volatile organic compounds based on their vapor pressure or boiling points by regulatory agencies. However, recent studies found that glycol ethers volatilize at ambient conditions nearly as rapidly as the traditional high-volatility solvents indicating the potential of glycol ethers to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). This is the first work on SOA formation from glycol ethers. The impact of molecular structure, specifically OH, on SOA formation from glycol ethers and related ethers are investigated in the work. Ethers with and without OH, with methyl group hindrance on OH and with OH at different location are studied in the presence of NOx and under NOx free conditions. Photooxidation experiments under different oxidation conditions confirm that the processing of ethers is a combination of carbonyl formation, cyclization and fragmentation. Bulk SOA chemical composition analysis and oxidation products identified in both gas and particle phase suggests that the presence and location of OH in the carbon bond of ethers determine the occurrence of cyclization mechanism during ether oxidation. The cyclization is proposed as a critical SOA formation mechanism to prevent the formation of volatile compounds from fragmentation during the oxidation of ethers. Glycol ethers with CH2-O-CH2CH2OH structure is found to readily form cyclization products, especially with the presence of NOx, which is more relevant to urban atmospheric conditions than without NOx. Glycol ethers are evaluated as dominating SOA precursors among all ethers studied. It is estimated that the contribution of glycol ethers to anthropogenic SOA is roughly 1% of the current organic aerosol from mobile sources. The contribution of glycol ethers to anthropogenic SOA is roughly 1% of the current organic aerosol from mobile sources and will play a more important role in future anthropogenic SOA formation.

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