title: Determination of coagulation coefficients and aggregation kinetics for charged aerosols.
abstract: A new method has been developed which allows determination of the coagulation coefficient of two oppositely charged particles experimentally. For this purpose, quasi-monodisperse particles of different sizes and morphology were used to study the influence of different parameters on the coagulation coefficient. A good agreement between experimental results and the classic Fuchs' theory was obtained when including a method accounting for particle nonsphericity. In experiments with polydisperse bipolarly charged aerosols, no principal differences to uncharged aerosols were found when a dimensionless representation was used. Changes in particle number concentration and geometric mean diameter can be described by simple empirical expressions.
authors.affiliation: Process- and Aerosol Measurement Technology, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, D-47047 Duisburg, Germany. a.maisels@uni-duisberg.de
authors.forename: Arkadi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maisels
authors.forename: F Einar
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Kruis
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fissan