The purpose of this study was to develop the PM_(2.5) source profiles, which are mass abundances (fraction of total mass) of a chemical species in PM_(2.5) source emissions. The source categories studied were soil, road dust, gasoline and diesel vehic...
The purpose of this study was to develop the PM_(2.5) source profiles, which are mass abundances (fraction of total mass) of a chemical species in PM_(2.5) source emissions. The source categories studied were soil, road dust, gasoline and diesel vehicles, industrial source, municipal incinerator, coal-fired power plant, biomass burning, and marine. The chemicals analyzed were ions, elements, and carbons. From this study. soil source had the crustal components such as Si, AI, and Fe. In the case of road dust, Si, OC, Ca, Fe had large abundances. The abundant species were SO₄^(2-), Cl^(-), NH₄^(+), and EC in the gasoline vehicle and EC, OC, Cl^(-), and SO₄^(2-) in the diesel vehicle. The main components were SO₄^(2-), S, NH₄^(+), and EC in the industrial source using bunker C oil as fuel. ^(-), NH₄^(+), Fe, and OC in the municipal incinerator source, and Si, Al, SO₄^(2-), and OC in the coal-fired power plant source. In the case of biomass burning, OC, EC, and CI- were mainly emitted. The main components in marine were Cl^(-), Na^(+), and SO₄^(2-).