Contribution of garbage burning to chloride and PM[subscript 2.5] in Mexico City
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Molina, Luisa Tan
Lei, W.
Bei, Naifang
Li, Guohui
Date Issued
September 2012
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Copernicus GmbH
Citation
Li, G. et al. “Contribution of garbage burning to chloride and PM[subscript 2.5] in Mexico City.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12.18 (2012): 8751–8761.
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Abstract
The contribution of garbage burning (GB) emissions to chloride and PM[subscript 2.5] in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) has been investigated for the period of 24 to 29 March during the MILAGRO-2006 campaign using the WRF-CHEM model. When the MCMA 2006 official emission inventory without biomass burning is used in the simulations, the WRF-CHEM model significantly underestimates the observed particulate chloride in the urban and the suburban areas. The inclusion of GB emissions substantially improves the simulations of particulate chloride; GB contributes more than 60% of the observation, indicating that it is a major source of particulate chloride in Mexico City. GB yields up to 3 pbb HCl at the ground level in the city, which is mainly caused by the burning of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in the garbage. GB is also an important source of PM[subscript 2.5], contributing about 3–30% simulated PM[subscript 2.5] mass on average. More modeling work is needed to evaluate the GB contribution to hazardous air toxics, such as dioxin, which is found to be released at high level from PVC burning in laboratory experiments.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8751-2012
