Apportionment of ambient primary and secondary pollutants during a 2001 summer study in Pittsburgh using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency UNMIX.
Apportionment of primary and secondary pollutants during the summer 2001 Pittsburgh Air Quality Study (PAQS) is reported. Several sites were included in PAQS, with the main site (the supersite) adjacent to the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Schenley Park. One of the additional sampling sites was located at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, located approximately 18 km southeast of downtown Pittsburgh. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) mass, gas-phase volatile organic material (VOM), particulate semivolatile and nonvolatile organic material (NVOM), and ammonium sulfate were apportioned at the two sites into their primary and secondary contributions using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency UNMIX 2.3 multivariate receptor modeling and analysis software. A portion of each of these species was identified as originating from gasoline and diesel primary mobile sources. Some of the organic material was formed from local secondary transformation processes, whereas the great majority of the secondary sulfate was associated with regional transformation contributions. The results indicated that the diurnal patterns of secondary gas-phase VOM and particulate semivolatile and NVOM were not correlated with secondary ammonium sulfate contributions but were associated with separate formation pathways. These findings are consistent with the bulk of the secondary ammonium sulfate in the Pittsburgh area being the result of contributions from distant transport and, thus, decoupled from local activity involving organic pollutants in the metropolitan area.
Anderson
Richard R
RR
National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Martello
Donald V
DV
Lucas
Leonard J
LJ
Davidson
Cliff I
CI
Modey
William K
WK
Eatough
Delbert J
DJ
D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis; D002947:Cities; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009589:Nitrogen Oxides / Q000032:analysis; D010126:Ozone / Q000032:analysis; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011210:Power Plants; D013431:Sulfates / Q000032:analysis; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency; D001335:Vehicle Emissions
D000393:Air Pollutants; D004391:Dust; D009589:Nitrogen Oxides; D013431:Sulfates; D001335:Vehicle Emissions; D010126:Ozone; D002244:Carbon