VOCs source analysis and secondary organic aerosol contribution during haze pollution in Xi'an City
The characteristics,aging degree and diurnal variation of VOCs in two haze pollution processes(pollution process Ⅰ:from December 29,2022 to January 6,2023;Pollution Process Ⅱ:from January 7,2023 to January 13,2023)were analyzed,based on the continuous on-line observation da-ta of haze pollution period at the Xi'an Super Station(December 29,2022-January 13,2023).The sources of VOCs during haze pollution episode were analyzed by characteristic ratio method and or-thogonal matrix factorization(PMF).The formation potential of secondary organic aerosols(SOA)was estimated by the method of aerosol formation coefficient(FAC).Result showed that the volume con-centration of VOCs were(113.10±29.46)×10-9,and(95.23±21.40)×10-9in heavy pollution process Ⅰ and Ⅱ.The proportion of organic compounds and alkanes was more than 70% .Compared to the situ-ation in the clean days,aromatic hydrocarbons showed the largest increase,Oxygenated Organic Compounds(OOCs)showed the largest increase in value,and acetylenic hydrocarbons showed a de-crease indicating a significant cumulative effect of severe aging of the air mass.In Process Ⅱ alkanes de-clined,reflecting the significant emission reduction effect of activating the heavy weather warning.The di-urnal variation was high at night and low at day,with a small peak at about 09:00.The analysis of char-acteristic ratio shows that benzene and toluene in VOCs come from the source of solvent,the source ap-portionment results of PMF model showed that VOCs mainly came from vehicle exhaust(20.54% ),ex-ternal imported sources(19.02% ),food sources(13.99% ),industrial solvent sources(10.72% ),and industrial production sources(35.72% ).By estimating the SOA generation potential,it was concluded that the benzene series compounds(BTEX)and naphthalene in aromatic hydrocarbons were the main substances of SOA pollution.
heavy pollution episodevolatile organic compounds(VOCs)characteristic ratio meth-odsource resolutionsecondary organic aerosol(SOA)