Understanding soot formation using advanced optical diagnostics

Información del proyecto

USFAOD

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 794156

DOI

10.3030/794156

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 6 Marzo 2018

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2018

Fecha de finalización 18 Mayo 2021

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 185 857,20

Aportación de la UE

€ 185 857,20

Coordinado por

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

Objetivo

Understanding the soot formation processes, the wide variety of soot structures and their optical properties plays a highly important role in reducing the amount of soot emissions from combustion, monitoring soot aerosols in the atmosphere and estimating their climate impacts. Their nucleation mechanisms and the soot nuclei properties, at the transition between molecules and nanoparticles, remain poorly understood and these are extremely hot topics in current researches. This ambitious project is aimed to shed the light on the soot nucleation processes and the soot nuclei characteristics via to the development and the combination of several state-of-the-art techniques, which are suitable to both molecules and particles. The outcomes will permit to fill the gaps in the understanding of the still mysterious nanoparticles formation in incomplete combustion. These techniques will be in-situ Raman spectroscopy, time-of-flight mass spectrometry, soot particle aerosol mass spectrometry, laser-induced fluorescence and laser-induced incandescence. The soot formation processes, from the soot molecular precursors to the mature soot nanoparticles, will be studied in the condensed phase (ex situ) after sampling and, in the frame of this project, an intense effort will be performed for their extensive study in situ, in the gas phase. The first and main target is to unveil soot nuclei properties and the phase transition in the inception zone, which are crucial for improving current models of soot nucleation. The second target is to progress decisively on the knowledge of the variety of optical and structural properties of soot, which are of high importance for combustion diagnostic in combustion reactors and for atmospheric science particularly because they are good proxies for primary black carbon aerosols. This proposal involves both training and transfer of knowledge and new techniques between the candidate and the host organization.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias de la atmósfera
• ingeniería y tecnología › nanotecnología › nanomateriales
• ciencias naturales › ciencias químicas › química analítica › espectrometría de masas
• ciencias naturales › ciencias físicas › óptica › espectroscopia

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2017 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2017

Coordinador

LUNDS UNIVERSITET

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 185 857,20
• Dirección: Paradisgatan 5c ; 22100 Lund ; Suecia
• Región: Södra Sverige › Sydsverige › Skåne län
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 185 857,20