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Spectral optical properties of soot: laboratory investigation of propane flame particles and their link to composition
Abstract. Soot aerosol generated from the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels is a major light-absorber, however its spectral optical properties for varying black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) content remains uncertain. In this study, propane soot aerosols with varying size, maturity, and composition, i.e. elemental to total carbon ratio (EC/TC), have been studied systematically in a large simulation chamber to determine their mass absorption, scattering, and extinction cross sections (MAC, MSC, MEC), single scattering albedo (SSA), and Absorption and Scattering Ångström Exponents (AAE, SAE). Apart from the MSC, all other parameters show a variability associated with the soot EC/TC ratio in soot. The MAC at 550 nm increases for increasing EC/TC, with values of 1.0 m2g-1 for EC/TC=0.0 (BrC-dominated soot) and 4.6 m2g-1 for EC/TC=0.79 (BC-dominated soot). The AAE and SSA at 550 nm decrease from 3.79 and 0.29 (EC/TC=0.0) to 1.27 and 0.10 (EC/TC=0.79). A combination of our results for propane soot with literature data for laboratory flame soot from diverse fuels supports a generalized exponential relationship between particle EC/TC and its MAC and AAE values, representing the spectral absorption of soot with varying maturity to lie in an optical continuum. From this, we extrapolate a MAC of 7.9 and 1.3 m2g-1 (550 nm) and an AAE (375–870 nm) of 1.05 and 4.02 for pure EC (BC-like) and OC (BrC-like) propane soot. The established relationship can provide a useful parameterization for models to estimate the absorption from combustion aerosols and its BC and BrC contributions.
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Mass absorption coefficient: Soot from miniCAST 6204 Type C soot Generator - 19.5:881.7 nm (size) - 450:630 nm (wavelength) (Version 1.0) [Data set] Johannes Heuser, Claudia Di Biagio, Jerome Yon, Mathieu Cazaunau, Antonin Bergé, Edouard Pangui, Marco Zanatta, Laura Renzi, Angela Marinoni, Satoshi Inomata, Chenjie Yu, Vera Bernardoni, Servanne Chevaillier, Daniel Ferry, Paolo Laj, Michel Maillé, Dario Massabò, Federico Mazzei, Gael Noyalet, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Brice Temime-Roussel, Roberta Vecchi, Virginia Vernocchi, Paola Formenti, Benedicte Picquet-Varrault, and Jean-Francois Doussin https://doi.org/10.25326/ANVB-RN96
Mass scattering coefficient: Soot from miniCAST 6204 Type C soot Generator - 19.5:881.7 nm (size) - 450:630 nm (wavelength) (Version 1.0) [Data set] Johannes Heuser, Claudia Di Biagio, Jerome Yon, Mathieu Cazaunau, Antonin Bergé, Edouard Pangui, Marco Zanatta, Laura Renzi, Angela Marinoni, Satoshi Inomata, Chenjie Yu, Vera Bernardoni, Servanne Chevaillier, Daniel Ferry, Paolo Laj, Michel Maillé, Dario Massabò, Federico Mazzei, Gael Noyalet, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Brice Temime-Roussel, Roberta Vecchi, Virginia Vernocchi, Paola Formenti, Benedicte Picquet-Varrault, and Jean-Francois Doussin https://doi.org/10.25326/G6VD-PY49
Mass extinction coefficient: Soot from miniCAST 6204 Type C soot Generator - 19.5:881.7 nm (size) - 450:630 nm 900 (wavelength) (Version 1.0) [Data set] Johannes Heuser, Claudia Di Biagio, Jerome Yon, Mathieu Cazaunau, Antonin Bergé, Edouard Pangui, Marco Zanatta, Laura Renzi, Angela Marinoni, Satoshi Inomata, Chenjie Yu, Vera Bernardoni, Servanne Chevaillier, Daniel Ferry, Paolo Laj, Michel Maillé, Dario Massabò, Federico Mazzei, Gael Noyalet, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Brice Temime-Roussel, Roberta Vecchi, Virginia Vernocchi, Paola Formenti, Benedicte Picquet-Varrault, and Jean-Francois Doussin https://doi.org/10.25326/PZ7X-KZ31
Single scattering albedo: Soot from miniCAST 6204 Type C soot Generator - 19.5:881.7 nm (size) - 450:630 nm (wavelength) (Version 1.0) [Data set] Johannes Heuser, Claudia Di Biagio, Jerome Yon, Mathieu Cazaunau, Antonin Bergé, Edouard Pangui, Marco Zanatta, Laura Renzi, Angela Marinoni, Satoshi Inomata, Chenjie Yu, Vera Bernardoni, Servanne Chevaillier, Daniel Ferry, Paolo Laj, Michel Maillé, Dario Massabò, Federico Mazzei, Gael Noyalet, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Brice Temime-Roussel, Roberta Vecchi, Virginia Vernocchi, Paola Formenti, Benedicte Picquet-Varrault, and Jean-Francois Doussin https://doi.org/10.25326/KJ5Q-6C88
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