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PRELIMINARY RESULTS from PIE 2005 the P AN I ntercomparison E xercise F. Flocke, G. Tyndall, E. Apel (NCAR) E. Williams (NOAA). PIE 2005. 6/28-7/8/2005 Enchanted Mesa eight different instruments from Canada, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US five different methods
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PRELIMINARY RESULTSfromPIE 2005the PANIntercomparison ExerciseF. Flocke, G. Tyndall, E. Apel (NCAR)E. Williams (NOAA)
PIE 2005 • 6/28-7/8/2005 • Enchanted Mesa • eight different instruments • from Canada, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US • five different methods • ambient and standards measurements
Instruments • Hiroshi Tanimoto, NIES, Japan; GC/MS • Graham Mills, UEA, UK, GC/ECD • Stefan Gilge, DWD, Germany, GC/ECD • Bernhard Rappenglueck and Rainer Schmitt, U. Houston and Metcon, Germany, GC/ECD • Jason O’Brien, Environment Canada, GC/PDD • Ron Cohen, Paul Wooldridge, Anne Perring, UCBerkeley, TD-LIF • Jim Roberts, NOAA, GC/ECD • Aaron Swanson, NCAR and Saewung Kim, GaTech, CIMS • (Frank Flocke, NCAR, Dual-GC/ECD)
Other Instruments • Meteorological parameters (NOAA) • NO, NO2, O3 (NOAA) • NOy reference instrument in referee trailer (NCAR)
Enchanted Mesa
The forbidden zone Flow: 12~20 slpm standards ambient GC5 Internet Access, email
UEA GC/ECD • Restek MXT-200 Column • 0.53 ID, 10 m, 1.0µ film • 22 sccm • 17 ºC isothermal • cycle time 10 minutes • PAN, PPN
Env. CAN GC/PDD • Restek MXT-200 Column • 0.53 ID, 8 m, 1.0µ film • 35 sccm • 15 ºC isothermal • cycle time 10 minutes • PAN, PPN
NOAA GC/ECD • Restek Rtx-200 Column • 0.53 ID, 7.5 m, 1.0µ film • 10 sccm • 15 ºC isothermal • cycle time 5 minutes • PAN, PPN, APAN, MPAN, PiBN
NIES GC/MS • DB-1 MS Column • 0.25 ID, 10 m, 0.25µ film • 2 sccm • cycle time 10 minutes • PAN, PPN, APAN, MPAN, PiBN, PnBN
UH/Metcon GC/ECDDWD GC/ECD • DB1/DB-5 Column combination • 0.53 ID, ~10 m total • 20 sccm • ~15 ºC isothermal • PAN, PPN • cycle time 10 minutes • DWD GC has modified flow control (PAN only)
UC Berkeley TD-LIF • measures NO2 by LIF • has 3 thermal decomposition stages held at ~150, 300 and 550 degrees decomposing all PANs, ANs, “NOy” into NO2 • cycle time 10 seconds • measures the sum of all PANs
NCAR/GaTech CIGAR • measures PANs by CIMS • PAN, PPN, PBN, APAN, MPAN, PBzN, MoPAN, PPeN, ... • cycle time 2 seconds • scans should show additional PANs unless they are very sticky
NCAR 2 Channel GC/ECD(“reference” instrument) • 2 RTX-200 Columns • 7.5m, 0.53 ID, 1.0µ film • 20 sccm • 20 ºC isothermal • cycle time 3 minutes • PAN, PPN, APAN, MPAN, PiBN
Measurements • all measurements from common manifold • ambient air • PAN and PPN standards in dry zero-air from manifold • PAN and PPN standards in humidified zero air • i-Propyl nitrate (interferent) in zero-air
Conclusions (for now) • very good agreement for ambient PAN measurements, considering it’s field data • acceptable agreement for ambient PPN measurements (might improve) • LIF measures consistently higher than sum of individual PANs (expected?) • extra PANs that GCs and CIMS miss? • no indication of LIF counting ANs as PANs • LIF NO2 background subtraction problem? • more work has to be done to produce final data and merge measurements together • compare MPAN, APAN, PBN