《Quantification of acetone emission from pine plants》.pdfVIP

Vol. 45 No. 5 SCIENCE IN CHINA (Series B) October 2002 Quantification of acetone emission from pine plants 1 2 SHAO Min (邵 敏) Jürgen Wildt 1. State Joint Key Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Center for Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; 2. Institut für Chemie der Belasteten Atmosphäre, ICG-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Shao Min (email: mshao@ces.pku.edu.cn) Received April 8, 2002 Abstract Acetone emission from pine plants (pinus sylvestris) is measured by continuously stirred tank reactor. Under a constant light intensity, acetone emission rates increase exponentially with leaf temperature. When leaf temperature is kept constant, acetone emission increases with light intensity. And acetone emission in darkness is also detected. Acetone emitted from pine is quickly 13 3 13 labeled by C when the plants are exposed to air with 630 mg/m CO . However, no more than 2 20% of acetone is 13C labeled. Acetone emission from pine may be due to both leaf temperature- controlled process and light intensity-controlled process. Based on these understandings, an algo- rithm is used to describe the short term acetone emission rates from pine. Keywords: biogenic emission, carbonyl compound, 13C labeling, simulation. Carbonyl compounds have been of increasing concern in recent years. They are intermediates of atmospheric oxidation process. Their photolysis is significant source of free radicals in tropo- sphere[1]. It was reported that OH and HO concentration could not be explained by the chemistry