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Koo B, Wilson GM, Morris RE, Dunker Yarwood G (2009) Comparison of source apportionment and sensitivity analysis in a particulate matter air quality model. Environ Sci Technol... 

Renewable energy processes do not generate sulfur dioxide, but coal-burning power plants do therefore, sulfur oxides (just as C02) are present in the atmosphere, contributing to acid rain and other hazards. The predominant form of sulfur oxide in the atmosphere is sulfur dioxide (S02) itself. Some sulfur trioxide (S03) is also formed in combustion processes, but it rapidly hydrolyzes to sulfuric acid, which is considered to be a particulate matter. In the United States, the ultimate air quality goals (secondary standards) for sulfur dioxide are 60 pg/m3 (0.02 ppm) annual arithmetic average and 260 pg/m3 (0.1 ppm) maximum 24 h concentration, which are not to be exceeded more than once a year. 

A liquid-liquid system can be created by coating a particulate matter with a thin layer of a liquid phase, similar to the way packed columns are used in GLC. To maintain such an LLC column, the stationary phase should be insoluble in the mobile phase, just as GLC phases need to be involatile at the temperature of operation. Unfortunately, insolubility is an absolute demand that can at best be approximated in practice. The solubility of the stationary phase in the mobile phase becomes even more critical once some flexibility is desired with regard to the choice of the mobile phase. For example, mixtures of several pure solvents are usually required in order to adapt the eluotropic strength (polarity) of the mobile phase such that the capacity factors fall in the optimum range. 

Partitioning of affinity adsorbent particles in aqueous two-phase systems with a subsequent elution in a conventional chromatographic mode combined the advantages of the two-phase system in dealing with a particulate matter with the resolution of the chromatography. 

Lemery s use of mechanical explanations for chemical phenomena is, in fact, very restricted. Although he deploys a particulate matter theory throughout the book, using it both post and ad hoc to explain chemical processes, he actually talks exclusively of only two kinds of shaped particles - acids which are pointy and alkalies which are porous. This system is in marked contrast to that of Descartes who happily postulated shapes for a great variety of particles - smooth, round, straight, bent, branched, hooked, and helical - to explain the properties of everything from oils and salts to magnetic attraction.11 Moreover, Lemery s explanations based on the shapes of acid and alkali particles alone creates a serious, but hitherto unremarked, tension within his chymical system. For Lemery equally maintains the traditional... 

Mix the suspended pellet with 1 ml of a particulate matter suspension (could be killed or live B. Subrilis spores killed Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) bacteria, etc.) and freeze-dry the mixture under vacuum, overnight. 

The capacity of a particulate matter to be compacted. Compressibility may be expressed as the pressure to reach a required density or, alternately, the density at a given pressure synonymous with compactibility. The ratio of the volume of the loose particulate matter to the volume of the compact made from it synonymous with fill ratio. 

A method by which a particulate matter is pressed between opposing punches both moving relative to the die. 

Wolff GT. The scientific basis for a particulate matter standard. Environ Manager... 

This experiment describes the construction of an air sampler using an aquarium pump, a flow meter, a filter holder, and bottles that serve as traps for analytes. Applications include the determinations of SO2, NO2, HCHO, and suspended particulate matter. 

To examine a sample by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP/MS) or inductively coupled plasma atomic-emission spectroscopy (ICP/AES) the sample must be transported into the flame of a plasma torch. Once in the flame, sample molecules are literally ripped apart to form ions of their constituent elements. These fragmentation and ionization processes are described in Chapters 6 and 14. To introduce samples into the center of the (plasma) flame, they must be transported there as gases, as finely dispersed droplets of a solution, or as fine particulate matter. The various methods of sample introduction are described here in three parts — A, B, and C Chapters 15, 16, and 17 — to cover gases, solutions (liquids), and solids. Some types of sample inlets are multipurpose and can be used with gases and liquids or with liquids and solids, but others have been designed specifically for only one kind of analysis. However, the principles governing the operation of inlet systems fall into a small number of categories. This chapter discusses specifically substances that are normally liquids at ambient temperatures. This sort of inlet is the commonest in analytical work. 

Suffice it to say at this stage that the surfaces of most solids subjected to such laser heating will be heated rapidly to very high temperatures and will vaporize as a mix of gas, molten droplets, and small particulate matter. For ICP/MS, it is then only necessary to sweep the ablated aerosol into the plasma flame using a flow of argon gas this is the basis of an ablation cell. It is usual to include a TV monitor and small camera to view the sample and to help direct the laser beam to where it is needed on the surface of the sample. 

In operation, a spark source is normally first flushed with argon to remove loose particulate matter from any previous analysis. The argon flow is then reduced, and the cathode is preheated or conditioned with a short bum time (about 20 sec). The argon flow is then reduced once more, and the source is ran for sufficient time to build a signal from the sample. The spark is then stopped, and the process is repeated as many times as necessary to obtain a consistent series of analyses. The arc source operates continuously, and sample signal can be taken over long periods of time. 

An aerosol produced instrumentally has similar properties, except that the aerosol is usually produced from solutions and not from pure liquids. For solutions of analytes, the droplets consist of solute and solvent, from which the latter can evaporate to give smaller droplets of increasingly concentrated solution (Figure 19.1). If the solvent evaporates entirely from a droplet, the desolvated dry solute appears as small solid particles, often simply called particulate matter. 

The calculation shows how rapidly a droplet changes in diameter with time as it flows toward the plasma flame. At 40°C, a droplet loses 90% of its size within alxtut 1.5 sec, in which time the sweep gas has flowed only about 8 cm along the tube leading to the plasma flame. Typical desolvation chambers operate at 150°C and, at these temperatures, similar changes in diameter will be complete within a few milliseconds. The droplets of sample solution lose almost all of their solvent (dry out) to give only residual sample (solute) particulate matter before reaching the plasma flame. 

Some solid materials are very intractable to analysis by standard methods and cannot be easily vaporized or dissolved in common solvents. Glass, bone, dried paint, and archaeological samples are common examples. These materials would now be examined by laser ablation, a technique that produces an aerosol of particulate matter. The laser can be used in its defocused mode for surface profiling or in its focused mode for depth profiling. Interestingly, lasers can be used to vaporize even thermally labile materials through use of the matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) method variant. 

The aerosol is swept to the torch in a stream of argon gas. During passage from the nebulizer to the plasma flame, the droplets rapidly become smaller, as solvent evaporates, and evenmally become very small. In many cases, almost all of the solvent evaporates to leave dry particulate matter of residual analyte. 

For mass spectrometric analysis of an analyte solution using a plasma torch, it is necessary to break down the solution into a fine droplet form that can be swept into the flame by a stream of argon gas. On the way to the flame, the droplets become even smaller and can eventually lose all solvent to leave dry analyte particulate matter. This fine residual matter can be fragmented and ionized in the plasma flame without disturbing its operation. 

Environmental Aspects. Airborne particulate matter (187) and aerosol (188) samples from around the world have been found to contain a variety of organic monocarboxyhc and dicarboxyhc acids, including adipic acid. Traces of the acid found ia southern California air were related both to automobile exhaust emission (189) and, iadirecfly, to cyclohexene as a secondary aerosol precursor (via ozonolysis) (190). Dibasic acids (eg, succinic acid) have been found even ia such unlikely sources as the Murchison meteorite (191). PubHc health standards for adipic acid contamination of reservoir waters were evaluated with respect to toxicity, odor, taste, transparency, foam, and other criteria (192). BiodegradabiUty of adipic acid solutions was also evaluated with respect to BOD/theoretical oxygen demand ratio, rate, lag time, and other factors (193). 

Extrusion. The filtered, preheated polymer solution is deHvered to the spinneret for extmsion at constant volume by accurate metering pumps. The spinnerets are of stainless steel or another suitable metal and may contain from thirteen to several hundred precision-made holes to provide a fiber of desired si2e and shape. AuxUiary filters are inserted in front of the fixture that holds the spinneret and in the spinneret itself to remove any residual particulate matter in the extmsion solution. 

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