Emission measurements were o
btained for a variety ofmilitary vehicles at Hill Air Force Base (Ogden, UT) inNovem
ber 2000 as part of a Strategic Environmental Researchand Development Program. Aircraft ground supportequipment vehicles using gasoline, diesel, and JP8 fuelswere tested using chassis dynamometers under predetermined load. The exhaust from the tested vehicle waspassed to a dilution tunnel where it was diluted 30-40 timesand collected using Micro-Orifice Uniform DepositImpactor (MOUDI) fitted with aluminum su
bstrates, an XAD-coated annular denuder, and a filter followed
by a solidadsor
bent. All MOUDI su
bstrates were analyzed for massand for organic and elemental (EC) car
bon
by the thermal/optical reflectance method and for polycyclic aromatichydrocar
bons (PAHs)
by GC/MS. Black car
bon was measuredwith a photoacoustic instrument. The denuder and filter/solid adsor
bent samples were analyzed for semivolatile PAH.Overall, there is more mass and higher EC contri
butionwhen the vehicle is run under higher load in comparisonwith the low load. However, older vehicles generally showmore mass and EC emissions than newer vehicles, andthere is a shift toward smaller particle sizes for the low load,which is most pronounced for newer vehicles. The particle-associated semivolatile PAHs and nonvolatile four-through six-ring PAHs are present predominantly on thesu
bmicron particles collected on MOUDI stages 0.1-0.18,0.18-0.32, and 0.32-0.56
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m. For the low-load runs, thedistri
bution of PAHs seems to
be shifted toward smaller sizeparticles. The gas-particle phase distri
bution of semivolatilePAHs depends also on the engine loading. For idle, notonly are the more volatile two- and three-ring PAHs, fromnaphthalene to dimethylphenanthrenes, retained on thedenuder portion,
but also less volatile four-ring PAHs, suchas fluoranthene and pyrene, are retained
by the denuderat the 80-90% range, which implies that they are presentpredominantly in the gas phase. In contrast, for enginesunder high loads, a much larger portion of three- and four-ring PAHs are partitioned to the particle phase.