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Long-term trends of black carbon and particle number concentrations and their vehicle emission factors in Stockholm
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8459-9852
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Number of Authors: 72024 (English)In: Environmental Pollution, ISSN 0269-7491, E-ISSN 1873-6424, Vol. 347, article id 123734Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Black carbon (BC) and particle number (PN) concentrations are usually high in cities due to traffic emissions. European mitigation policies, including Euro emission standards, have been implemented to curb these emissions. We analyzed BC and PN (particle diameter Dp > 4 nm) concentrations in Stockholm spanning the years 2013–2019 (BC) and 2009–2019 (PN) measured at street canyon and rooftop sites to assess the effectiveness of the implemented policies. Combining these data with inverse dispersion modeling, we estimated BC and PN emission factors (EFBC and EFPN) for the mixed fleet, reflecting real-world driving conditions. The pollutants showed decreasing trends at both sites, but PN concentrations remained high at the canyon site considering the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. BC concentrations declined more rapidly than PN concentrations, showing a −9.4% and −4.9% annual decrease at the canyon and −7.2% and −0.5% at the rooftop site in the years 2013–2019. The EFBC and EFPN trends showed that the mitigation strategies for reducing particulate emissions for on-road vehicles were successful over the study period. However, the introduction of biofuels in the vehicle fleet —ethanol and later rapeseed methyl ester (RME)— increased the concentrations of particles with Dp < 10 nm before the adoption of particulate filters in the exhausts. Stricter Euro emission regulations, especially with diesel particulate filters (DPF) in Euro 5, 6, and VI vehicles, led to 66% decrease in EFBC and 55% in EFPN. Real-world EFBC surpassed HBEFA (Handbook Emission Factors for Road Transport) database values by 2.4–4.8 times; however, direct comparisons between real-world and HBEFA EFPN are difficult due to differences in lower cut-off sizes and measurement techniques. Our results underscore the necessity for revising the HBEFA database, updating laboratory testing methods and portable emission measuring systems (PEMS) measurements to account for liquid condensate contributions to PN measurements.

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2024. Vol. 347, article id 123734
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Biodiesel, Diesel particulate filters, Dieselization, OSPM model, Particle number size distributions, Ultrafine particles
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-235938DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123734ISI: 001222235600001PubMedID: 38458523Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85188506273OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-235938DiVA, id: diva2:1916354
Available from: 2024-11-27 Created: 2024-11-27 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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