Monitoring the soot emissions of passing cars

We report on the first application of a novel fast on-road sensing method for measurement of particulate emissions of individual passing passenger cars. The study was motivated by the shift of interest from gases to particles in connection with strong adverse health effects. The results correspond very much to findings by Beaton et al [Science, May 19,1995) for gaseous hydrocarbon and CO emissions: A small percentage of "superpolluters" (here 5%) account for a high percentage (here 43%) of the pollution (here elemental carbon). We estimate that up to 50% of the particulate emissions of vehicles could be avoided on the basis of the present legislation, if on-road monitoring would be applied to enforce maintenance. Our fast sensing method for particles is based on photoelectron emission from the emitted airborne soot particles in combination with a CO2 sensor delivering a reference. (A)

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0013936X
• Authors:
  • KURNIAWAN, A
  • SCHMIDT-OTT, A
• Publication Date: 2006-3-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1911-15
• Serial:
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Chemical Society
  • ISSN: 0013-936X
  • EISSN: 1520-5851
  • Serial URL: http://pubs.acs.org/journal/esthag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Carbon; Fumes; Gases; Measurement; Particles; Pollutants; Surveillance; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Soot
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 7158: Carbon; 2442: Emission; 6734: Gas; 6136: Measurement; 4511: Particle; 2421: Soot; 9101: Surveillance; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01027148
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 5 2006 12:24PM