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Berkeley study identifies diesel as main source of vehicular secondary organic aerosols

Green Car Congress

The use of petroleum-derived fuels is an important source of reactive gas-phase organic carbon that provides key precursors to the formation of secondary OA (SOA) and tropospheric ozone. However, concerns about engine performance and the cost of fuel production led the state to allow higher aromatic levels in diesel fuel. Day, Lynn M.

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