Services

Measurement and calibration for VOCs/halocarbons.

Investigations of the evolution of ambient air in different environments. Potential for use of two chambers with changes of the conditions in one of the two with the addition of a pollutant or an oxidant.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.

It is a mobile facility.

Sources tested in the past include diesel and gasoline engines, wood stoves, pellet stoves, barbecues, etc. Both the primary emissions (after dilution) and their evolution during daytime and nighttime reactions are quantified. The user can supply the source to be studied.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.

It is a mobile facility.

Testing / intercomparisons of new instruments (inorganic and organic, gas-phase and particulate pollutants)

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.

It is a mobile facility.

-        Provision of data from simulation chamber experiments on study of atmospheric behaviour of biogenic and anthropogenic VOCs and semiVOCs, aerosols, product formation, etc. under nearly real conditions.
-        Access to a broad variety of instruments, both stablished and state-of-the art, including PTR-ToF-MS, CI-APi-ToFMS, etc.
-        Validation of photochemical models.
-        Support for planning and evaluation of data experiments.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None. Coordination with other activities of the facility is needed. 

Training on how to perform  experiments in humid turbulent flows by experienced scientists as well as hands-on training on high-end and state-of-the-art instrumentation for characterizing turbulent flows, as well as thermodynamic and aerosol particle and droplet microphysical properties.