Applying SEM-EDX and XRD Techniques to Demonstrate the Overgrowth of Atmospheric Soot and Its Coalescence with Crystal Silicate Particles in Delhi英文文献资料.docVIP

Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2012, 2, 89-93 /10.4236/acs.2012.21010 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/acs) Applying SEM-EDX and XRD Techniques to Demonstrate the Overgrowth of Atmospheric Soot and Its Coalescence with Crystal Silicate Particles in Delhi Arun Srivastava , Vinod K. Jain * School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Email: srivastava02@ * Received October 31, 2011; revised December 3, 2011; accepted December 28, 2011 ABSTRACT Scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) systems were used to demonstrate the overgrowth of soot to fractal like structure and its subsequent coalescence with crystal shaped silicate particles. Sample was obtained from a very clean area of Delhi at a height of 16 m from ground with the help of a five stage cascade impactor in the winters of 2006. Impactor collects particles in five different size ranges (i.e. ≥10.9, 10.9 - 5.4, 5.4 - 1.6, 1.6 - 0.7 and ≤0.7 μm). In the present investigation only the particles collected in the size range 1.6 - 0.7 μm (D50 = 0.980 μm) have been considered. It has clearly been observed that the soot particles tend to grow or rather agglomerate in a fractal like structure. During this process they incorporate other chemically and struc- turally different particles (crystal silicate in the present investigation) to make multi phase and multi chemical amor- phous aggregates. These aggregates are formed during/after its collection on the sampling substrate and may be as many as hundred times more than the expected size interval (D50 or cut off range). Keywords: Scanning Electron Microscope; Energy Dispersive X-Ray; Soot; Aerosols; Overgrowth; Delhi 1. Introduction ferent parts of world by various techniques. Some of the important studies are as follows: Samson [10] analyzed the structure of soot agglomerates. Schmidt-Ott [11,1