Table 1:
Concentrations of chemicals in the biomass smoke condensates in mg/g PM
Smoldering | Flaming | |||||||||
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Pine Needle | Red Oak | Pine Chips | Eucalyptus | Peat | Pine Needle | Red Oak | Pine Chips | Eucalyptus | Peat | |
Methoxyphenols | 15301.78 | 31068.14 | 64976.87 | 21685.34 | 11613.96 | 3671.59 | 1195 | 15576 | 14909.52 | 475 |
Levoglucosan | 17296.21 | 78877.05 | 46366.29 | 52749.74 | 40957.26 | 14236.16 | 37300 | 61896 | 125828.57 | 8650 |
n-Alkanes | 736.08 | 33.81 | 69.07 | 673.82 | 9289.174 | 44.54 | 3410 | 1804 | 780.95 | 2714.29 |
PAHs | 2488.86 | 85.04 | 492.40 | 95.29 | 643.16 | 104.90 | 220 | 5280 | 5138.10 | 139.29 |
Steranes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67.86 |
Hopanes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 185.8974 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OC | 699443 | 529508 | 601394 | 532723 | 797863 | 416413 | 629242 | 513893 | 624508 | 430830 |
Adapted from Kim et al. 2018. EOM – extractable organic material; PAHs – polyaromatic hydrocarbons, OC – organic carbon