AEROSOL SIZE

DISTRIBUTION IN
DIFFERENT CITIES
Delhi 2018 Beijing
2018
Size distribution instrument range 15-640nm size distribution instrument range 20 to 680 nm
PM2.5 concentration was 180 µg/m3 , 220 µg/m3 PM2.5 during our sampling period was 56±40 μg m -3
135 and 120 µg/m3for winter, autumn (excluding (53±40 μg m -3 for the year 2018)
Diwali) and summer respectively
hour measurements for the nucleation, Aitken, particles (DP>3)observed at 09:00–11:00, around 10 nm
accumulation, large fine and coarse modes at all times, sizes between ∼ 15 and 50 nm, the
between 15 nm and 10 µm in all seasons emissions are clearly highest at 18:00–20:00
the UFP contribution to the PN1 (55 % in day, 50 % total annual emissions are 24 % for Dp < 3 nm, 36 % for
in night for winter; 52 % in day, 45 % in night for Dp = 3–6 nm, 34 %for Dp = 6–30 nm, 5 % for Dp = 30–100
autumn; 58 % in day, 56 % in night for summer) nm, and 1 % for Dp = 100–1000 nm.
PN10 (38 % in day, 38 % in night for winter; 40 % in
day, 33 % in night for autumn; 36 % in day, 33 % in
night for summer
PSD of diesel buses dominate the 463
accumulation mode diameters of 74-87 nm while
the PSD of CNG buses dominated the nucleation
464 mode with modes at 21-24 nm. Total PN
emissions of diesel buses per vehicle were 4 times
higher 465 than the level of CNG buses
Annual average PM2.5 levels range
between 81 and 190 µg/m3 in Delhi and
are clearly higher than the WHO
guideline value (5 µg/m3 ) and Indian
national limit value (40 µg/m3 87 )
SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPEAN
CITIES
• NAME OF CITY INSTRUMENT SIZE
• BARCELONA 11 to 478 nm
• LONDON 17 to 604 nm
• ZURICH 10 to 487 nm
NAME OF CITY PM2.5 PM10 CONCENTRATION
CONCENTRATION(µg m−3) (µg m−3)
BARCELONA 15.8 23.5
LONDON 13.8 21.1
ZURICH 16.8 17.3

NO (µg m−3) CO (mg m−3 SO2 (µg m−3)

9.4 0.32 2.0

19.3 0.26 2.0

10.5 0.31 0.31

Size distribution in Xi’an China (2014)
monitor could measure particle size distributions in 15 different size channels: 0.3,
0.4, 0.5, 0.65, 0.8, 1.0, 1.6, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 7.5, 10, 15 and 20 um
CO2 concentration in the apartment was 622.5 ppm, which was much higher than
office (469.7 ppm) and restaurant (493.1 ppm)
Size distribution in ITALY 2012
• Instrument size 300 nm up to 20 μm
• Pm2.5 and pm10 measurements in different stations of Milan in
standard deviation and mean deviation
SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN Delhi in 2013
• INSTRUMENT RANGE 0.06 and 20.2 mm
PM2.5 concentrations varied from 200 to 550 Ug/m3
two modes in the accumulation range (0.15 mm and ~0.55 mm) and one mode in the coarse
range (3.0 mm) were found

The average contribution of PM1, PM2.5 and PM2.5-10 to total PM mass was 41.9 ± 7.09%,
74.9 ± 5.36% and 25.1 ± 5.36% respectively

Delhi (82.9% fine and 17.1% coarse), Agra (68% fine at an urban site and 61.4% fine at a rural
site), Chennai (PM10 consists of 56% PM2.5 and 44% PM1), and Raipur (60.6% fine and 39.4%
coarse).
similar observation in Beijing (China) and estimated 70% of PM mass to be in the fine range
(2.5 um) while in Dhaka (Bangladesh), attributed 52% of the total PM mass to PM2.5