Research article | Highlight paper |
| 06 May 2021
Captive Aerosol Growth and Evolution (CAGE) chamber system to investigate particle growth due to secondary aerosol formation
Candice L. Sirmollo,Don R. Collins,Jordan M. McCormick,Cassandra F. Milan,Matthew H. Erickson,James H. Flynn,Rebecca J. Sheesley,Sascha Usenko,Henry W. Wallace,Alexander A. T. Bui,Robert J. Griffin,Matthew Tezak,Sean M. Kinahan,and Joshua L. Santarpia
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of
California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and
Technology (CE-CERT), University of
California Riverside, Riverside, California 92507, USA
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of
California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and
Technology (CE-CERT), University of
California Riverside, Riverside, California 92507, USA
The newly developed portable 1 m3 CAGE chamber systems were characterized using data acquired during a 2-month field study in 2016 in a forested area north of Houston, TX, USA. Concentrations of several oxidant and organic compounds measured in the chamber were found to closely agree with those calculated with a zero-dimensional model. By tracking the modes of injected monodisperse particles, a pattern change was observed for hourly averaged growth rates between late summer and early fall.
The newly developed portable 1 m3 CAGE chamber systems were characterized using data acquired...