TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of agglomerates by simultaneous measurement of mobility, vacuum aerodynamic diameter and mass
AU - Shapiro, M.
AU - Vainshtein, P.
AU - Dutcher, D.
AU - Emery, M.
AU - Stolzenburg, M.
AU - Kittelson, D. B.
AU - McMurry, P. H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Fund for the Promotion of Research at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Mark Emery was supported by a graduate fellowship through the IGERT program of the U.S. National Science Foundation' IGERT program (award DGE-0114372). Dabrina Dutcher was supported by a fellowship through the U.S. Department of Energy's Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship program. We also acknowledge support from NSF Grant no. NSF/ATM-0096555.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - A method of particle characterization by measuring their mobility diameter, dm, mass, m, and vacuum aerodynamic diameter, davac, is proposed and tested for diesel- and flame soot agglomerates having mobility sizes 300-768nm. The method involves no assumptions other than the knowledge of the particle inherent density. Experiments were performed to establish mass-mobility relationship. The agglomerates' mass-mobility exponent (Dfm) was found to be 2.31 and 1.98 for diesel-soot and flame-soot particles, respectively. The dynamic shape factors (DSFs) of the agglomerates in vacuum and at atmospheric pressure were deduced from the data measured in the range from 2 to 5 for diesel-soot and from 2.7 to 4.3 for flame-soot particles, respectively. The vacuum DSFs are significantly higher than those measured at atmospheric pressure.Independently, from the measured agglomerates' vacuum aerodynamic diameter davac and mass m we evaluated their vacuum mobility diameters, dmvac, and the concomitant vacuum fractal dimension, Dpr, relating m and dmvac: m=kpr(davac/dp)Dpr and governing also the agglomerates' projected properties. Despite the clear difference in Dfm, determined from the mass-mobility relationship, both soot particles have close vacuum properties Dpr, kpr, reflecting the screening effect by monomer primary particles, composing the agglomerates. A method is proposed to determine the average primary particle diameter dp from the measured agglomerates m-davac power dependence.The model of Vainshtein & Shapiro (2005), for agglomerates' drag in rarefied gases, is used to rationalize and correlate the measured experimental results. We found that the agglomerates' DSFs are very sensitive with respect to their structure, as expressed in their fractal dimension (Df). Therefore we proposed a method of retrieving the agglomerates' Df from the DSFs measured in the transition regime, on the basis of an appropriate theoretical model for agglomerates' drag.
AB - A method of particle characterization by measuring their mobility diameter, dm, mass, m, and vacuum aerodynamic diameter, davac, is proposed and tested for diesel- and flame soot agglomerates having mobility sizes 300-768nm. The method involves no assumptions other than the knowledge of the particle inherent density. Experiments were performed to establish mass-mobility relationship. The agglomerates' mass-mobility exponent (Dfm) was found to be 2.31 and 1.98 for diesel-soot and flame-soot particles, respectively. The dynamic shape factors (DSFs) of the agglomerates in vacuum and at atmospheric pressure were deduced from the data measured in the range from 2 to 5 for diesel-soot and from 2.7 to 4.3 for flame-soot particles, respectively. The vacuum DSFs are significantly higher than those measured at atmospheric pressure.Independently, from the measured agglomerates' vacuum aerodynamic diameter davac and mass m we evaluated their vacuum mobility diameters, dmvac, and the concomitant vacuum fractal dimension, Dpr, relating m and dmvac: m=kpr(davac/dp)Dpr and governing also the agglomerates' projected properties. Despite the clear difference in Dfm, determined from the mass-mobility relationship, both soot particles have close vacuum properties Dpr, kpr, reflecting the screening effect by monomer primary particles, composing the agglomerates. A method is proposed to determine the average primary particle diameter dp from the measured agglomerates m-davac power dependence.The model of Vainshtein & Shapiro (2005), for agglomerates' drag in rarefied gases, is used to rationalize and correlate the measured experimental results. We found that the agglomerates' DSFs are very sensitive with respect to their structure, as expressed in their fractal dimension (Df). Therefore we proposed a method of retrieving the agglomerates' Df from the DSFs measured in the transition regime, on the basis of an appropriate theoretical model for agglomerates' drag.
KW - Diesel and flame soot
KW - Dynamic shape factor (DSF)
KW - Fractal dimension
KW - Particle mobility diameter
KW - Vacuum DSF
KW - Vacuum aerodynamic diameter
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2011.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2011.08.004
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:82155199496
SN - 0021-8502
VL - 44
SP - 24
EP - 45
JO - Journal of Aerosol Science
JF - Journal of Aerosol Science
ER -