Non-negligible secondary contribution to brown carbon in autumn and winter: inspiration from particulate nitrated and oxygenated aromatic compounds in urban Beijing

作者：Yanqin Ren, Zhenhai Wu, Yuanyuan Ji, Fang Bi, Junling Li, Haijie Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hong Li, Gehui Wang · 发表于：Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.5194/acp-24-6525-2024 · 被引用次数：17 · 研究领域：Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols、Air Quality and Health Impacts、Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Abstract. Nitrated aromatic compounds (NACs) and oxygenated derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (OPAHs) play vital roles within brown carbon (BrC), influencing both climate dynamics and human health to a certain degree. The concentrations of these drug classes were analyzed in PM2.5 from an urban area in Beijing during the autumn and winter of 2017 and 2018. There were four heavy haze episodes during the campaign, two of which happened prior to heating and the other two during heating. During the entire course of sampling, the mean total concentrations of the nine NACs and the eight OPAHs were 1.2–263 and 2.1–234 ng m−3, respectively. The concentrations of both NACs and OPAHs were approximately 2–3 times higher in the heating period than before heating. For NACs, the relative molecular composition did not change significantly before and during heating, with 4-nitrocatechol and 4-nitrophenol demonstrating the highest abundance. For OPAHs, 1-naphthaldehyde was the most abundant species before and during heating, while the relative proportion of anthraquinone increased by more than twice, from 13 % before heating to 31 % during the heating. In Beijing's urban area during autumn and winter, significant sources of NACs and OPAHs have been traced back to automobile emissions and biomass burning activities. Interestingly, it was observed that the contribution from coal combustion increased notably during heating. It is worth noting that the secondary generation of BrC wa...