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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2657
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2657
27 Nov 2023
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Suppressed atmospheric chemical aging of cooking organic aerosol particles in wintertime conditions

Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata

Abstract. Cooking organic aerosol (COA) is one of the major constituents of particulate matter in urban areas. COA is oxidized by atmospheric oxidants such as ozone, changing its physical, chemical and toxicological properties. However, atmospheric chemical lifetimes of COA and its tracers such as oleic acid are typically longer than that have been estimated by laboratory studies. We tackled the issue by considering temperature. Namely, we hypothesize that increased viscosity of COA at ambient temperature accounts for its prolonged atmospheric chemical lifetimes in wintertime. Laboratory generated COA particles from cooking oil were exposed to ozone in an aerosol flow tube reactor for the temperature range of -20 °C ~ 35 °C. The pseudo-second order chemical reaction rate constants (k2) decreased by orders of magnitude for lower temperatures. The temperature dependence of k2 was fit well by considering diffusion-limited chemical reaction mechanism, suggesting that reduced viscosity was responsible for the decrease in chemical reactivity. In combination with the observed global surface temperature, the atmospheric chemical lifetimes of COA were estimated to be much longer in wintertime (>1 hour) than that in summertime (a few minutes) for temperate and boreal regions. Our present study demonstrates that the oxidation lifetimes of COA particles will need to be parameterized as a function of temperature in the future for estimating environmental impacts and fates of this category of particulate matter.

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15 May 2024
Suppressed atmospheric chemical aging of cooking organic aerosol particles in wintertime conditions
Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 5625–5636, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5625-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5625-2024, 2024
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Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata

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  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2657', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Dec 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2657', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Dec 2023

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2657', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Dec 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2657', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Dec 2023

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Wenli Liu on behalf of the Authors (02 Mar 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Mar 2024) by Theodora Nah
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (11 Mar 2024)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (13 Mar 2024)
ED: Publish as is (18 Mar 2024) by Theodora Nah
AR by Wenli Liu on behalf of the Authors (18 Mar 2024)  Manuscript 

Journal article(s) based on this preprint

15 May 2024
Suppressed atmospheric chemical aging of cooking organic aerosol particles in wintertime conditions
Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 5625–5636, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5625-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5625-2024, 2024
Short summary
Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata
Wenli Liu, Longkun He, Yingjun Liu, Keren Liao, Qi Chen, and Mikinori Kuwata

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Cooking is one of the major particle sources in urban areas. Previous laboratory studies demonstrated the chemical lifetimes of cooking organic aerosols were much shorter (~minutes) than the values reported by field observations (~hours). We conducted laboratory experiments to resolve the discrepancy by considering suppressed reactivity under low temperature. The parameterized k2-T relationships and observed surface temperature data were used to estimate the chemical lifetimes of COA particles.