Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment

Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment (한국대기환경학회)
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Source Identification and Quantification of Coarse and Fine Particles by TTFA and PMF

  • Hwang, In-Jo (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Applied Chemistry and Institute of Environmental Studies, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Bong, Choon-Keun (Industrial Liaison Research Institute, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Jung (LIDAR Tech., Nonhyun-Dong, Gangnam-Gu) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Sool (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Applied Chemistry and Institute of Environmental Studies, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2002.12.01
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Abstract

Receptor modeling is one of statistical methods to achieve reasonable air pollution strategies. In order to maintain and manage ambient air quality, it is necessary to identify sources and to apportion its sources for ambient particulate matters. The main purpose of the study was to survey seasonal trends of inorganic elements in the coarse and fine particles. Second, this study has attempted emission sources qualitatively by a receptor method, the PMF mo-del. After that. both PMF (positive matrix factorization) model and TTFA (target transformation factor analysis) model were applied to compare and to estimate mass contribution of coarse and fine particle sources at the receptor. A total of 138 sets of samples was collected from 1989 to 1996 by a low volume cascade impactor with 9 size fraction stages at Kyung Hee University in Korea. Sixteen chemical species (Si, Ca, Fe, K, Pb, Na, Zn, Mg, Ba, Ni, V, Mn, Cr, Br, Cu. Co) were characterized by XRF. The study result showed that the weighted arithmetic mean of coarse and fine particles were 51.3 and 54.4 $\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥, respectively. Contribution of both particle fractions were esti-mated using TTFA and PMF models. The number of estimated sources was seven according to TTFA model and 8 according to PMF model. Comparison of TTFA and PMF revealed that both methodologies exhibited similar trends in their contribution pattern. However, large differences between contributions were observed in some sour-ces. The results of this study may help to suggest control strategies in local countries where known source profiles do not exist.

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