A spectrometer for measuring particle size distributions in the range of 3 nm to 10 μm

作     者：Jieqiong LIU Jingkun JIANG Qiang ZHANG Jianguo DENG Jiming HAO 

作者机构：State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control School of Environment Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex Beijing 100084 China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering》 (环境科学与工程前沿（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第10卷第1期

页      面：63-72页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 08[工学] 080401[工学-精密仪器及机械] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：We thank Dr. James Smith for his assistance on designing the control box and Ms. Zhiying Xie for her help on setting up the spectrometer. Financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos: 41227805  21107060  21190054 and 21221004)  National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (Grant No: 2013CB228505)  and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (8122025) are acknowledged 

主　　题：spectrometer particle size distribution elec-trical mobility aerodynamic diameter linear inversion 

摘      要：A spectrometer combining electrical mobility sizing and aerodynamic sizing was developed to measure aerosol size distributions in the range of 3 nm to 10 μm. It includes three instruments which cover different size ranges （a nano scanning mobility particle sizer （NSMPS, 3 - 60 nm）, a regular scanning mobility particle sizer （RSMPS, 40 - 700nm）, and an aerodynamic particle sizer （APS, 550nm- 10 μm））. High voltage and sheath flow of the NSMPS and RSMPS were supplied using two home-built control boxes. A LabVIEW program was developed for spectrometer automatic operation. A linear inversion method was applied to correct particle multiple charging effects and to integrate data from the three instruments into a wide-range size distribution. Experi- ments were conducted to compare distributions in the overlap size ranges measured by three instruments. Good agreement between the NSMPS and RSMPS was achieved after correcting for the difference in counting efficiencies of the two particle counters. Aerodynamic size distribu- tions reported by the APS were converted to mobility size distributions by applying an effective density method. Distributions measured by the RSMPS and APS were consistent in the overlap size range of 550 - 700 nm. A full spectrum in the size range of 3nm to 10~tm was demonstrated by measuring aerosol generated using a mixture of different sized polystyrene latex spheres.