Emission factors and light absorption properties of brown carbon from household coal combustion in China

Sun, Jianzhong; Zhi, Guorui; Hitzenberger, Regina; Chen, Yingjun; Tian, Chongguo; Zhang, Yayun; Feng, Yanli; Cheng, Miaomiao; Zhang, Yuzhe; Cai, Jing; Chen, Feng; Qiu, Yiqin; Jiang, Zhiming; Li, Jun; Zhang, Gan; Mo, Yangzhi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4769-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4769-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4769-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

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12 Apr 2017

Research article |

| 12 Apr 2017

Emission factors and light absorption properties of brown carbon from household coal combustion in China

Jianzhong Sun, Guorui Zhi, Regina Hitzenberger, Yingjun Chen, Chongguo Tian, Yayun Zhang, Yanli Feng, Miaomiao Cheng, Yuzhe Zhang, Jing Cai, Feng Chen, Yiqin Qiu, Zhiming Jiang, Jun Li, Gan Zhang, and Yangzhi Mo

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RC1: 'Review on the manuscript "Emission factors and light absorption properties of brown carbon from household coal combustion in China" by Sun et al.', Sandra Mogo, 19 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1#', Jianzhong Sun, 14 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Comments on "Emission factors and light absorption properties of brown carbon from household coal combustion in China" by Sun et al.,', Guofeng SHEN, 01 Feb 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2#', Jianzhong Sun, 14 Mar 2017

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Mar 2017) by Aijun Ding

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This paper investigates the emission factors and the light absorption properties of brown carbon (BrC) from China’s household coal burning. Seven coals of various ranks were burned in four typical stoves as both chunk and briquette styles. The optical integrating sphere (IS) method was employed to quantify BrC and black carbon (BC). We conclude that, in the scenario of current household coal burning in China, solar light absorption by BrC accounts for 26.5 % of the total absorption.