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Oxidative potential of gas phase combustion emissions - an underestimated and potentially harmful component of air pollution from combustion processes

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posted on 2024-06-05, 02:38 authored by Svetlana StevanovicSvetlana Stevanovic, A Vaughan, F Hedayat, F Salimi, MM Rahman, Ali ZareAli Zare, RA Brown, RJ Brown, H Wang, Z Zhang, X Wang, SE Bottle, IA Yang, ZD Ristovski
The oxidative potential (OP) of the gas phase is an important and neglected aspect of environmental toxicity. Whilst prolonged exposure to particulate matter (PM) associated reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been shown to lead to negative health effects, the potential for compounds in gas phase to cause similar effects is yet to be understood. In this study we describe: the significance of the gas phase OP generated through vehicle emissions; discuss the origin and evolution of species contributing to measured OP; and report on the impact of gas phase OP on human lung cells. The model aerosol for this study was exhaust emitted from a Euro III Common-rail diesel engine fuelled with different blends of diesel and biodiesel. The gas phase of these emissions was found to be potentially as hazardous as the particle phase. Fuel oxygen content was found to negatively correlate with the gas phase OP, and positively correlate with particle phase OP. This signifies a complex interaction between reactive species present in gas and particle phase. Furthermore, this interaction has an overarching effect on the OP of both particle and gas phase, and therefore the toxicity of combustion emissions.

History

Journal

Atmospheric environment

Volume

158

Pagination

227-235

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

1352-2310

eISSN

1873-2844

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2017, Elsevier Ltd.

Publisher

Elsevier