Project goals

The project entitled “Secondary Organic Aerosol Investigations in a Newly Developed Flow REACTOR” (SOA-REACTOR) would have the main interest to provide the highest qualitative and comprehensive information regarding the SOA formation from chemical photodegradation of AHs for a better understanding of atmospheric chemical processes occurring mainly in urban area.

The primary goal of the SOA-REACTOR project is the development and validation of an additional workbench complementary to those existing already at the CERNESIM centre.

The flow tube for investigations of SOA would be an advanced tool for studying the SOA formation and composition from various reaction systems and would add more insights to this relevant area of atmospheric chemistry.

In order to achieve the main goals of the SOA-REACTOR project there will be considered the following objectives:

1. Developing, testing and validating a flow reactor for investigation of the secondary organic aerosols formation from a series of aromatic compounds through the reaction with atmospheric oxidation precursors (WP1).

2. SOA formation yields and composition from the ozonolysis of 2-methylstyrene (MSTY) and 2,6-dimethoxyphenol (DMOP) (WP2).

3. The investigation of the secondary organic aerosol formation from the OH radical initiated degradation of 2-methylstyrene, 2,6-dimethoxyphenol and 2,6-dimethylphenol (DMP) (WP3).