Open burning of rice, corn and wheat straws: primary emissions, photochemical aging, and secondary organic aerosol formation

Fang, Zheng; Deng, Wei; Zhang, Yanli; Ding, Xiang; Tang, Mingjin; Liu, Tengyu; Hu, Qihou; Zhu, Ming; Wang, Zhaoyi; Yang, Weiqiang; Huang, Zhonghui; Song, Wei; Bi, Xinhui; Chen, Jianmin; Sun, Yele; George, Christian; Wang, Xinming

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14821-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14821-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14821-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 24

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14 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 14 Dec 2017

Open burning of rice, corn and wheat straws: primary emissions, photochemical aging, and secondary organic aerosol formation

Zheng Fang, Wei Deng, Yanli Zhang, Xiang Ding, Mingjin Tang, Tengyu Liu, Qihou Hu, Ming Zhu, Zhaoyi Wang, Weiqiang Yang, Zhonghui Huang, Wei Song, Xinhui Bi, Jianmin Chen, Yele Sun, Christian George, and Xinming Wang

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RC1: 'Comments on "Open burning of rice, corn and wheat straw: primary emissions, photochemical aging, and secondary organic aerosol formation"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Yanli Zhang, 27 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Comments on “Open burning of rice, corn and wheat straws: primary emissions, photochemical aging, and secondary organic aerosol formation”', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Yanli Zhang, 27 Sep 2017

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Primary emissions and aging of open straw burning plumes were characterized in ambient dilution conditions in a chamber. Rich in alkenes, the plumes have high O₃ formation potential. The emissions of specific particulate and gaseous compounds were less when the straws were fully burned. Organic aerosol (OA) mass increased by a factor of 2–8 with 3–9 h photo-oxidation, yet > 70 % of the mass cannot be explained by the known precursors. OA gained more O- and N-containing compounds during aging.