Small-Scale Study of Siberian Biomass Burning: II. Smoke Hygroscopicity

Olga B. Popovicheva ； Natalia M. Persiantseva ； Mikhail A. Timofeev ； Natalia K. Shonija ； Valerii S. Kozlov

《Aerosol and Air Quality Research》 16卷7期 (2016/07) Pp. 1558-1568

https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2015.11.0648

並列摘要

A lack of understanding about the impact of Siberian wildfire emissions on the environment necessitates the characterization of biomass burning aerosol hygroscopicity. Flaming fires of typical Siberian biomass (pine and debris) were simulated during small-scale combustion experiments in a Large Aerosol Chamber (LAC). Analyses of individual particles with respect to morphology and elemental composition allows the separation of freshly-produced smoke into five fractions with the elemental carbon, chain soot agglomerates, irregular internally mixed soot, and distinct irregular minerals of fly ash containing S, Ca, Al, and Si. Aging in a dark chamber leads to an appearance of the fraction with inorganic inclusions such as KCl and CaCl_2. Categorization of fresh-emitted and aged particles on hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and hygroscopic ones is performed. The criteria for categorization are extended from fossil fuel hightemperature combustion, based on a concept of water uptake by soot particles and utilization of a number of reference soots with known oxygen content and mixtures with sulfates and other inorganic salts. We show how the hydration properties of emitted smoke particles and inorganic inclusions can increase the initial level of smoke hygroscopicity.

並列關鍵字

Biomass burning ； Siberian wildfires ； Smoke aerosol ； Elemental composition ； Fractionation ； Water absorption ； Hygroscopicity