Unambiguous identification and measurement of sulfuric acid cluster chemiions 
in aircraft jet engine exhaust

Kiendler, A.; Arnold, F.

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Unambiguous identification and measurement of sulfuric acid cluster chemiions in aircraft jet engine exhaust

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Kiendler, A.
Prof. Konrad Mauersberger, Emeriti, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Arnold, F.
Frank Arnold - Atmospheric Trace Gases and Ions, Research Groups, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Kiendler, A., & Arnold, F. (2002). Unambiguous identification and measurement of sulfuric acid cluster chemiions in aircraft jet engine exhaust. Atmospheric Environment, 36(11), 1757-1761.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-838A-3

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Measurements of negative chemiions (CI) emitted by a jet engine at the ground were made with an ion trap mass spectrometer. The new instrument offered a high-mass resolution, which led to a first unambiguous identification of negative CI formed by a jet engine. The observed ions are HSO4-(H2SO4)(a) clusters proved by an isotope study. From the mass spectra an efficiency epsilon for fuel sulfur conversion to S-VI of 2% +/- 0.8 could be inferred. In addition thermodynamic properties of the observed cluster ions were inferred from measured ion abundance ratios. An effective free energy DeltaG(a-1,a)(0) = -14 kcal/mol was calculated (for a = 3) and an enthalpy of DeltaH(a-1,a)(0) = -24 (for a = 3) kcal/mol was estimated. This indicates a low stability of HSO4-(H2SO4)(a), (a greater than or equal to 3) cluster ions against thermal detachment of H2SO4 at the high temperatures of our experiment. However the low temperatures at cruise altitudes around 10-12 km lead to high H2SO4/H2O supersaturation and therefore a rapid growth of HSO4- (H2SO4), cluster ions seems to be possible which is not hindered by thermal H2SO4 detachment. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.