Reactive organic carbon emissions from volatile chemical products

Abstract kg per person per year (6.4 kg C per person per year) for 2016, which translates to 3.05 Tg (2.06 Tg C), making VCPs a dominant source of anthropogenic organic emissions in the United States. Uncertainty associated with this framework and sensitivity to select parameters were characterized through Monte Carlo analysis, resulting in a 95 % confidence interval of national VCP emissions for 2016 of 2.61–3.53 Tg (1.76–2.38 Tg C). This nationwide total is broadly consistent with the U.S. EPA's 2017 National Emission Inventory (NEI); however, county-level and categorical estimates can differ substantially from NEI values. VCPy predicts higher VCP emissions than the NEI for approximately half of all counties, with 5 % of all counties having greater than 55 % higher emissions. Categorically, application of the VCPy framework yields higher emissions for personal care products (150 %) and paints and coatings (25 %) when compared to the NEI, whereas pesticides (- - - r = g O 3 g - 1, respectively, indicating VCPs are an important, and likely to date underrepresented, source of secondary pollution in urban environments.

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Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Reactive organic carbon emissions from volatile chemical products ; volume:21 ; number:6 ; year:2021 ; pages:5079-5100 ; extent:22
Atmospheric chemistry and physics ; 21, Heft 6 (2021), 5079-5100 (gesamt 22)

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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Creator
Seltzer, Karl M.
Pennington, Elyse
Rao, Venkatesh
Murphy, Benjamin N.
Strum, Madeleine
Isaacs, Kristin K.
Pye, Havala O. T.

DOI
10.5194/acp-21-5079-2021
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023061504401088508924
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Seltzer, Karl M.
  • Pennington, Elyse
  • Rao, Venkatesh
  • Murphy, Benjamin N.
  • Strum, Madeleine
  • Isaacs, Kristin K.
  • Pye, Havala O. T.

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