Table 1 Sample information and collection methods from different emission sectors

From: Char dominates black carbon aerosol emission and its historic reduction in China

Sector/Type

Materials and categories

Stoves and conditions

Total Sample numbers

Residential Stove Combustion (RS)

Residential Biomass Burning (RBB)

Nine crop straws (maize, corncob, soybean, rice, cotton, sorghum, reed, peanut, and bamboo), logwood and brushwood

Residential brick biomass stoves

84

Residential Coal Combustion (RCC)

Two coal types (Chunk and Briquette),

One for honeycomb briquettes and three traditional style chunk stoves

38

Vehicle exhaust (VE)

On-road vehicle exhaust (OVE)

Fifteen On-road vehicles with different oil type (Gasoline: 93#; Diesel: 0#;) four different emission stand (China III- China VI)

Idling; suburban main road driving; high speed road driving

63

Non-road vehicle exhaust (NVE)

Six forklifts with or without DPF

Under different working mode (idling, unloaded walking and loaded walking)

97

Three oceangoing vessels (OGV) Steady-state sailing conditions,

Engine load (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%), engine rated power, and fuel type (marine gas oil and heavy fuel oil).

Coal-fired boiler combustion (CB)

Coal-fired boilers for industry (ICB)

Two drugs manufacturing factory, coal-fired boilers and two coking plants (ICBs)) in Hebi

 

9

Coal-fired boilers for power plants (PCB)

Coal-fired power plant, biomass power plants (PCBs)

 

3

Simulated combustion in laboratory

Residential solid fuel combustion in quartz tube furnace (RS-QTF)

Five types of biomasses (rice straw, wheat straw, corn stalks, pine wood, and poplar wood)

Combusted at 300-900°C, (total seven temperature levels) with oxygen concentration of 21% and 10.5% in the combustion furnace.

126

One type of coal (Xuzhou coal)