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- Title
Is There a Formaldehyde Deficit in Emissions Inventories for Southeast Michigan?
- Authors
Olaguer, Eduardo P.; Hu, Yongtao; Kilmer, Susan; Adelman, Zachariah E.; Vasilakos, Petros; Odman, M. Talat; Vaerten, Marissa; McDonald, Tracey; Gregory, David; Lomerson, Bryan; Russell, Armistead G.
- Abstract
Formaldehyde is a key Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and ozone precursor that plays a vital role in the urban atmospheric radical budget on par with water vapor, ozone, and nitrous acid. In addition to modulating radical and ozone production, ambient formaldehyde has both carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic inhalation health effects. This study concludes that ambient formaldehyde in the Southeast Michigan (SEMI) ozone nonattainment area may be underestimated up to a factor of two or more by regional air quality models. The addition of plausible amounts of primary formaldehyde to the U.S. National Emissions Inventory based on estimated formaldehyde-to-CO emission ratios partially alleviates this modeling deficit and indicates the presence of formaldehyde concentrations above 5 ppb at a previously unsuspected location northeast of Detroit. Standard 24-h formaldehyde samples obtained during the Michigan-Ontario Ozone Source Experiment (MOOSE) verified the presence of high ambient formaldehyde concentrations at this location. Moreover, the addition of plausible amounts of primary formaldehyde to VOC emissions inventories may add more than 1 ppb of ozone to ambient air in the SEMI nonattainment area, where ozone design values exceeded the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) by 1–2 ppb for the 2018–2020 design value period.
- Subjects
MICHIGAN; DETROIT (Mich.); FORMALDEHYDE; AIR quality standards; EMISSION inventories; VOLATILE organic compounds; AIR pollutants; NITROUS acid; OZONE; WATER vapor
- Publication
Atmosphere, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 3, p461
- ISSN
2073-4433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/atmos14030461