Aging aerosol in a well-mixed continuous-flow tank reactor: an introduction of the activation time distribution

Friebel, Franz; Mensah, Amewu A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2647-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2647-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2647-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 5

Research article

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08 May 2019

Research article |

| 08 May 2019

Aging aerosol in a well-mixed continuous-flow tank reactor: an introduction of the activation time distribution

Franz Friebel and Amewu A. Mensah

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2647-2019-supplement

Data sets

Aging aerosol in a well-mixed continuous flow tank reactor: An introduction of the activation time distribution F. Friebel and Amewu A. Mensah https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000303444

Short summary

Simulating atmospheric aging processes in the laboratory under atmospheric conditions is a challenging task. The main obstacle is achieving long observation times with a reasonable amount of technical and financial input. We adapted the concept of the continuous-flow stirred tank reactor in order to achieve long observation times (up to 16 h) in small chamber volumes (3m3). We successfully tested this concept by oxidation of soot particles with ozone.