Characterisation, Source-Receptor Modelling and Fate of Organics in Airborne Particles

URGENT Air Project No GST/02/1983. – Duration: 1/4/1998 - 31/3/2000.

Contents

  1. Project overview
  2. People
  3. Data collection
  4. Data summary
  5. References
  6. Other related URGENT projects

1. Project overview

A project abstract is available from the URGENT Central Web Site.

2. People

Lead researcher Dr Steve Smith Division of Life Sciences, King's College, London
Data manager Dr Daniel Waterman King's College, London
Other team members David Green SEIPH-ERG
Keith Hall Hall Analytical Labs
Prof Brian Horsfield Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Diane Hall BP
Barry Davies City of Westminster
Richard Brown Pembrokeshire CC

3. Data collection

Location
  • Marelybone Road, London
  • Two rural sites in Pembrokeshire
Dates September 1998 - December 19999
Data
Data on daily concentrations of PM10 for alternate days collected between 1998-1999 in association with SEIPH-ERG at the Supersite at Marylebone Road, London and from Pembrokeshire at two sites over limited sampling campaigns.
Thermal desorption GC-MS analyses of standard reference material, providing reproducibility and quantitative information on PAHs and n-alkanes.
Thermal desorption chromatographic fingerprints of PM10 deposits for selected periods in sampling campaign at the Supersite and from Pembrokeshire.
Pyrolysis GC-MS chromatographic fingerprints of PM10 deposits for selected periods in sampling campaign at the Supersite and from Pembrokeshire.

4. Data summary

Data have been provided in MASSLAB format, which is not supported by the BADC. CDRoms can be provided by BADC on request. They can be read using MASSLAB software or, alternatively, AMDIS software. A document describing the MASSLAB data file headers is available from the project documentation archive, in PDF and Word formats.

5. References

Hall, P.A., A.F.R. Watson, G.V. Garner, K. Hall, S. Smith, D. Watermen and B. Horsfield, An investigation of micro-scale sealed vessel thermal extraction-gas chromatography-mass spetrometry (MSSV-GC-MS) and micro-scale sealed vessel pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry applied to a standard reference material of an urban dust/organics, Science of Total Environment, 235, 269-276, 1999.

Waterman, D., B. Horsfield, F. Leistner, K. Hall and S. Smith, Quantification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the NIST standard reference material (SRM1649A) urban dust using thermal desorption GC/MS, Analytical Chemistry, 72, 3563-3567, 2000.

Waterman, D., B. Horsfield, K. Hall and S. Smith, The Application of Micro-Scale Sealed Vessel-Thermal Desorption GC/MS (MSSV-TD-GC/MS) for the Organic Analysis of Airborne Particulate Matter: Linearity, Reproducibility and Quantification, Journal of Chromatography A, 2001 (in press).

6. Other related URGENT projects

GST/02/2222 Airborne Particulate Pollutants: Physicochemistry and Toxicity