A new method for monitoring the average residence time of atmospheric particulate matter

Liu Ya-Chun

doi:10.7498/aps.62.092301

Abstract

The long life decay products 210Pb, 210Bi and 210Po of 222Rn are adsorbed in atmospheric particulate matters, thus making it possible to estimate the average residence time by measuring the specific activity or activity ratio of radon daughters. However, the existing research results are rather bad in consistency and the contradictory phenomena cannot be reasonably explained, which makes it inapplicable to atmospheric environmental monitoring. For this reason, starting with the basic attributes of lower atmosphere, based on the decay characteristics, transfer rates and other related information of radioactive nuclides in atmospheric particulates, a mathematical model is built to reflect the relationship among the particle numbers of the absorbed, decayed and transferred. Then, a new method is presented to estimate the average residence time of atmospheric aerosol. The method can solve the confusion that have appeared in the current research, reveal that the atmosphere has limited self-purification function, and provide the condition for nuclides in the same decaying chain to decay to the activity balance and the way to reduce the average residence time. All these conclusions will provide a scientific basis for further study and exploitation in atmospheric environment monitoring.

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Liu Ya-Chun^1,2

1.
School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China;
2.
School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China, Hengyang 421001
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11075070), and the Innovation Foundation for Graduate of Hunan Province of China (Grant No. CX2009B187).

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[8]	Dockery 1993 New England Journal of Medicine 329 1753
[9]	Li X 2003 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 210 412
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[29]	Guebuem Kim, Najid Hussain, Hhomas M. Church 2000 Tellus 52B 74
[30]	Yang W F, Huang Y P, Chen M 2006 Science in China (Series D: Earth Sciences) 1 81 (in Chinese) [杨伟锋, 黄奕普, 陈敏 2006 中国科学(D辑,地球科学) l 81]
[31]	Masqué P, Sanchez-Cabeza J A, Bruach J M 2002 Continental Shelf Research 22 2127
[32]	Dlugosz-Lisiecka M, Bem H 2012 Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 293 135

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