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Nanoparticles Personal Exposure Measurement Using a Novel Active Personal Nanoparticle Sampler During Machining and Weldind of Nanomaterials.
Ondráčková, Lucie ; Vlčková, Lucia ; Ondráček, Jakub ; Schwarz, Jaroslav ; Ždímal, Vladimír
Development of nanotechnology has grown very rapidly in past decades. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to monitor the exposure of workers in nanoparticle-based manufacturing operations. In order to determine real personal exposure, it is advisable to take a sample within the worker’s breathing zone. To perform this task, there is not much of a choice yet, since experimental methods are still under development. Recently, a novel active personal nanoparticle sampler (PENS) has been developed, collecting both respirable mass fraction (RPM) and nanoparticles (NPs) simultaneously.
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Modelling of Binary Nucleation in Laminar Co - Flow Tube.
Trávníčková, Tereza ; Havlica, Jaromír ; Hrubý, Jan ; Ždímal, Vladimír
Particle nucleation is one of the important phenomena encountered in both chemical engineering and environmental studies. The Laminar Co-Flow Tube (LCFT) was designed for experimental measurement of binary and ternary nucleation of mixtures of atmospheric aerosols at laboratory conditions, most often H2SO4 + H2O + amines (MEA, TEA)/terpenes (alfa-pinene, limonene). Two models were used for mathematical modeling of momentum and mass transfer in the LFDC. 2D axisymmetric CFD model and simplified 1D analytical model. A parametric study was carried out using both models and the influence of the individual simplifications of analytical model on overall behavior of the system was discussed.
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Thermodynamic Study of Water Activity in Atmospheric Aerosol Particles.
Asadzadeh, Behnaz ; Bendová, Magdalena ; Ždímal, Vladimír
Atmospheric aerosols are complex mixtures of various inorganic−organic compounds and play significant roles in atmospheric chemistry, earth’s climate, and global radiation budget as well as in human health. Hygroscopicity is the ability of the particle to uptake water from surrounding environment. Hygroscopicity can directly control the size distribution, chemical reactivity, and phase state of aerosol particles and thus contribute to radiative forcing on the climate system, including both the direct forcing by absorbing or scattering light and indirect forcing through activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Interactions between inorganic−organic may have a crucial impact on the hygroscopic behaviour of aerosol droplets and lead to discrepancies from ideal thermodynamic behavior. The non-ideality of mixtures in aerosol particles influences the gas-particle partitioning and affects the physical state of the condensed phase, potentially leading to liquid-liquid phase separation. Thermodynamic models are key tools to gain insight into the non-ideal behavior of organic-inorganic mixtures. By means of activity coefficients, non-ideal behaviour can be taken into account. In this study we developed a thermodynamic segment-based local composition model named NRTL (Non Random Two Liquid) to describe the aktivity coefficients of organic and inorganic aerosol particles.\n
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Comparison of Winter Biomass Burning Source Contribution at National Atmospheric Observatory Košetice Based on AMS and Aethalometer Data.
Schwarz, Jaroslav ; Vodička, Petr ; Zíková, Naděžda ; Mbengue, Saliou ; Šerfözö, Norbert ; Pokorná, Petra ; Makeš, Otakar ; Ždímal, Vladimír
Although atmospheric aerosol concentrations exhibit decreasing trend in last decades, the contribution of aerosol emitted by biomass combustion is opposite due to increasing wood combustion used for residential heating. Previous works determined that the share of aerosol of biomass burning origin was up to 50 % in winter. In this work, the data from aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) and Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) are used to elucidate biomass combustion aerosol impact at National Atmospheric Observatory Košetice (NAOK) and the results are compared with simple aethalometer model approach.
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NMR Aerosolomics as a Tool to Distinguish Various Types of Aerosols.
Horník, Štěpán ; Schwarz, Jaroslav ; Ždímal, Vladimír ; Sýkora, Jan
Water-soluble organic compounds represent up to 80% of all organic compounds present in atmospheric aerosols. Unlike composition of inorganic compounds or volatile organic compounds, which seems to be well explored, the knowledge about WSOC composition is still rather limited. The most frequently used method for WSOC analysis is GC-MS, which is a very sensitive technique. However, the analysis of polar compounds via GC-MS requires derivatization and the quantification is extremely time consuming. The second widely used technique is ion chromatography (IC). Nowadays, IC is routinely used for analysis of specific groups of organic compounds such as carboxylic acids, amines or carbohydrates. On the other hand, there is NMR spectroscopy as a fully quantitative but rather insensitive method. NMR spectroscopy was for the purpose of aerosol chemistry employed only recently as this technique has undergone rapid development and sensitivity gain of late. So far, the use of NMR spectroscopy is mainly restricted to socalled Functional Group Analysis, of which main interest lies elsewhere than in identification of individual compounds.
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Studium mokré depozice atmosférickjého aerosolu s využitím horizontálních hydrometeorů.
Zíková, Naděžda ; Pokorná, Petra ; Pešice, Petr ; Sedlák, Pavel ; Ždímal, Vladimír
Atmosférický aerosol (AA) ovlivňuje nejen vznik oblačnosti, ale také další vlastnosti oblaků. Interakce mezi AA a oblačností může být zkoumána i u mlh, resp. nízké oblačnosti. Příkladem stanice vhodné k takovému výzkumu je stanice Milešovka, kde se mlha (nebo nízká oblačnost) nachází 55 % času (Fišák, Tesař, & Fottová, 2009). Zde proto bylo provedeno měření za účelem popisu vlivu mlh na početní velikostní distribuce AA a aktivovaných nukleačních jader.\n\n
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Origin of Atmospheric Aerosol Based on Data with Different Time Resolution at the National Atmospheric Observatory Košetice.
Pokorná, Petra ; Zíková, Naděžda ; Lhotka, Radek ; Vodička, Petr ; Makeš, Otakar ; Mbengue, Saliou ; Holubová Šmejkalová, Adéla ; Schwarz, Jaroslav ; Ondráček, Jakub ; Ždímal, Vladimír
To improve the air quality the underlying causalities must be well understood,particularly when it comes to aspects such as PM concentration, sources and their origin. The aim of this work was to determine air pollution origin at NAOK based on atmospheric aerosol (AA) data of different time resolution measured during intensive summer campaing.
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