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Heavy duty diesel exhaust particles during engine motoring formed by lube oil consumption Panu Karjalainen, Leonidas Ntziachristos, Timo Murtonen, Hugo Wihersaari, Pauli Simonen, Fanni Myllari, Nils-Olof Nylund, Jorma Keskinen, and Topi Rönkkö Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03284 • Publication Date (Web): 13 Oct 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on October 17, 2016

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Environmental Science & Technology

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Heavy duty diesel exhaust particles during engine

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motoring formed by lube oil consumption

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Panu Karjalainen1, Leonidas Ntziachristos1,*, Timo Murtonen2, Hugo Wihersaari1, Pauli

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Simonen1, Fanni Mylläri1, Nils-Olof Nylund2, Jorma Keskinen1, Topi Rönkkö1

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Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O.

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Box 692, 33101 Tampere, Finland 2

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., P.O. Box 1000, 02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland

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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected], tel: +30 23 10 99 60 03, fax: +30 23 10 99 60 12

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ABSTRACT

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This study reports high numbers of exhaust emissions particles during engine motoring. Such

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particles were observed in the exhaust of two heavy duty vehicles with no diesel particle filter

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(DPF), driven on speed ramp tests and transient cycles. A significant fraction of these particles

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was non-volatile in nature. The number-weighted size distribution peak was below 10 nm when a

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thermodenuder was used to remove semivolatile material, growing up to 40 nm after semivolatile

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species condensation. These particles were found to contribute to 9-13% of total particle number

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emitted over a complete driving cycle. Engine motoring particles originated from lube oil and

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evidence suggests that these are of heavy organic or organometallic material. Particles of similar

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characteristics have been observed in the core particle mode during normal fired engine

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operation. Their size and chemical character has implications primarily on the environmental

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toxicity of non-DPF diesel and, secondarily, on the performance of catalytic devices and DPFs.

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Lube oil formulation measures can be taken to reduce the emission of such particles.

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KEYWORDS

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particulate emissions; diesel emissions; lube oil; core mode; nucleation mode

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INTRODUCTION

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Diesel exhaust aerosol emissions have been in detail studied since at least the late 1970s.1 Over

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these years, exhaust particle physical and chemical characteristics from a variety of vehicle and

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engine types operating on different fuels have been measured around the world. In parallel,

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health studies have revealed the association of untreated diesel exhaust with short-term2 and

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long-term3 health effects in humans. The collective efforts from thousands of scientists and

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researchers around the world, together with the solutions achieved by engineers in the

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development side and policy makers in the regulatory front, have brought significant

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improvements to emissions control, including engine technology measures, stringent fuel quality

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specifications, and enhanced methods of monitoring real-world particulate matter (PM)

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emissions. Undoubtedly though, the breakthrough in diesel particle emissions control has been

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achieved with the commercialization of the diesel particle filter (DPF). DPFs effectively filter the

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exhaust gas before it is emitted to the atmosphere and have been shown to lead to real-world

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reductions of at least ~90% in PM mass emissions4 and 66% reduction in total particle number

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(PN)5, compared to typical pre-DPF levels. Heavy duty engines equipped with DPF and

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complying with the US2010 standards were reported to emit two orders of magnitude less mass

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and number of total particles compared to pre-DPF ones in a comprehensive laboratory study.6

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DPFs have also been shown to result to very low non-volatile particle (soot) emissions.7, 8 Most

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importantly, recent studies demonstrated the potential of DPFs to reduce health effects9 and

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revealed the positive impacts of DPF-equipped vehicles to air quality.10

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Current emission limits in regions like China, India and Latin America still do not mandate the

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use of DPFs in new vehicles.11 Understanding and monitoring emissions from vehicles without

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DPFs is still necessary in these regions. Even in countries with world-class emission standards,


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DPF equipped vehicles only correspond to a fraction of the fleet. In 2015, only about one third of

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the truck fleet was equipped with DPFs in US9 and 10% of the fleet in the EU.12 As the average

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service life of a heavy duty diesel (HDD) vehicle is in the excess of 20 years both in US13 and

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the EU12, non-DPF diesel exhaust emissions will continue to be a dominant PM source in the

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future. In EU, this is what projections show until at least 2035.14 PM control measures for

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existing vehicles are therefore still necessary.

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PM characteristics at the inlet of catalytic aftertreatment devices and DPFs have implications

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on long-term performance and durability. Soot load in the DPF is continuously (passive systems)

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or periodically (active systems) oxidized in a process known as regeneration. The frequency of

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active regenerations mostly depends on the soot loading of the filter. Regenerations become

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more frequent as the vehicle ages, both because engine out soot emissions deteriorate with time

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but also because the DPF effective volume decreases by ash layers formed in the DPF channels.

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Ash layers mostly form due to accumulation of lube oil residues or additives which are not

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eliminated during regenerations. DPF ash accumulation increases fuel consumption by

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increasing the average backpressure levels in the exhaust and by increasing regeneration

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frequency due to the smaller DPF effective volume. Some of the ash components, like P or Ca

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are known catalyst poisons hampering selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and diesel oxidation

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catalyst (DOC) performance.15

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A previous study16 reported a significant number of ash and semivolatile particles formed

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during engine motoring. These particles mostly resided in the sub-20 nm size range while a

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significant fraction was still observed below 7 nm. Because of their small size and often metallic

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character, these particles potentially pose a direct environmental and health risk. For example,

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nanometer-sized magnetite particles associated to combustion have recently been observed in


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human brain samples.17 Moreover, such non-volatile nanoparticles are linked to various

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ecotoxicity endpoints.18, 19 But even for DPF vehicles, such particles may potentially contribute

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to ash formation in the DPF thus compromising the environmental performance, including

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increased fuel consumption and DPF regeneration frequency, of the vehicle. In this paper we

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study the characteristics of these particles from controlled experiments on two HDD vehicles

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with the objective to improve our understanding on how to reduce their direct and indirect

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environmental impacts.

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EXPERIMENTAL

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Vehicles, fuel and lubricant oil. The test vehicles included a local delivery Euro IV truck (2007

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model year, 879 thousand km) and a Euro III city bus (2005 model year, 997 thousand km) in

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operation at the Helsinki Metropolitan area. The vehicles were not equipped with DPF but they

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were both fitted with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and the truck was also equipped with an

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oxidation catalyst (Table S1 in supplemental information – SI). Vehicles of such specifications

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are common in local transportation and, usually, older busses like the one tested here are used to

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increase service capacity during rush hours. Commercially available diesel fuel with less than

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10 ppm sulfur and a typical market-grade lube oil (10W-40) were used in all tests for both

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vehicles. A sample of the oil used in the bus was analyzed for residues after testing (more info in

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SI).

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Testing pattern. Chassis dynamometer measurements were conducted over repetitive cycles of

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acceleration, steady speed driving, deceleration, and steady speed driving at lower speed. The

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lower speed was 20 km/h, and the higher one was either 40 km/h or 80 km/h in different cycles.

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Steady speed driving lasted for 30 s, and acceleration ramps were executed with an average load


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of 70-90% of maximum engine load. Deceleration ramps were performed by the engine braking

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the vehicle, without applying wheel brakes or any exhaust throttling. The dynamometer tractive

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resistance was adjusted to represent half-full vehicle loading. Tests over the World Harmonized

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Vehicle Cycle (WHVC) were also performed for comparison. Recordings and more details on

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the cycles executed are given in the SI.

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Exhaust sampling and instrumentation. Particle samples were collected following partial

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dilution sampling, directly in the exhaust line, with a primary dilution ratio of 12:1. Removal of

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aerosol volatile material was conducted in some tests using a thermodenuder (TD) operating at

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265ºC. Particle concentration was measured by three parallel condensation particle counters with

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cutpoints at 2.5 nm, 7 nm, and 23 nm, respectively. An EEPS (TSI, Inc.) provided real-time size

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distributions. Individual particle characterization and elemental speciation was conducted by

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observing individual particles by transmission electron microscope (TEM) combined with energy

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dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS). Several engine operation parameters were also extracted

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using the SAE J1939 communication protocol. SI presents more details on the experimental

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setup implemented.

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RESULTS

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Figure 1 shows a 200 s long emission recording of two consecutive 20-40 km/h speed ramps of

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the truck. The top panel shows that fuel rate scales with vehicle speed and the highest values are

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reached during acceleration. At decelerations, the fuel delivery is interrupted and the engine is

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motored by vehicle inertia, thus braking the vehicle without application of the wheel brakes. The

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three following panels in Figure 1 show particle number emission rates and size distributions

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with and without the use of the TD. The concentration practically in all sizes and regardless of


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the use of the TD follows the fuel rate profile when the engine is fired, with accelerations leading

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to highest concentrations followed by steady speed driving at 40 km/h and then 20 km/h. The

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distribution in these cases shows a distinct soot mode peak in the range of 40-80 nm, a range

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typically expected from in-cylinder fuel combustion, and, occasionally, a second peak of sub-

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20 nm particles.


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Figure 1. Truck operation and particle emissions over two 40-20 km/h speed ramps. The top

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panel shows vehicle speed and fuel rate to the engine, the second panel from top shows particle

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number traces with and without use of TD and the two remaining panels show EEPS particle size

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spectra, again with and without TD use.


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The scaling of particle concentration with fuel rate is lost during decelerations. Braking from

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40 km/h to 20 km/h initially leads to a local peak of particle number, especially when no TD is

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used. This finding confirms the observation first made by Rönkkö et al.16 on new particle

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formation during engine motoring events. Particle number drops with time over the 20 s period

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that the deceleration lasts and, when no TD is used, gradually reaches the concentration level at

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20 km/h, despite no fuel has been delivered to the engine during the entire deceleration period.

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The particle size distribution differs during decelerations, compared to the one at fired operation.

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No soot mode is observed during deceleration, hence the particle formation mechanism during

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engine motoring is not based on combustion. The different size distribution also confirms that

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these particles are not late combustion residuals in the exhaust or the sampling system but actual

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exhaust products of the engine.

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The majority of those particles are volatile in nature. Their concentration downstream of the

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TD is one order of magnitude lower compared to upstream conditions, while a significant

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fraction of those resides in the 2.5-7 nm region. In fact, the number of non-volatile particles

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larger than 20 nm is negligible. This means that these particles would not be captured by the

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regulatory particle number protocol currently applicable for Euro VI trucks in EU that only

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addresses particles larger than 23 nm.20

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Typical particle size distributions from different operation phases of the truck are shown in

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Figure 2. When no TD is used, size distributions seem to significantly overlap, with those under

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fired conditions being either bimodal or monomodal with a measurable number concentration

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above 50 nm. Deceleration is the only phase practically producing no particles above 50 nm. All

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distributions are dominated by semi-volatile compounds. Removing semi-volatiles by the TD


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reveals that fired conditions produce bimodal distributions with a distinct distribution below

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20 nm and a soot mode with a median above 50 nm. Engine motoring results to an almost

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identical sub-20 nm mode with fired conditions but no soot mode. The number peak of the sub-

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20 nm mode is consistently found in the range of 6-10 nm, regardless of whether the engine is

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fired or not. The similarity indicates that the sub-20 nm mode, often called nonvolatile ‘core’

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mode21-24 or solid nucleation mode (NM)25, contains a strong fraction which is not combustion

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generated. As almost all of the many studies on non-DPF diesel exhaust have shown, this

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primary core mode acts as a condensation pool for volatile and semi-volatile material addition.

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The new material addition transforms these primary size distributions to the ones shown w/o TD

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in Fig. 2 (left panel).

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Figure 2. Typical particle size distributions at different operation conditions from the truck

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recordings, corrected for dilution ratio. Left, measurements w/o TD and right with the TD on.

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The particle number concentration and size distribution as a function of engine temperature are

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shown in Figure 3. The coolant temperature starting the engines from a cold start is shown on the


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top panels in both cases. Some initial data points were actually missing for the truck case due to

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error in recording (Figure S2 in SI). As shown by the EEPS size distributions with time, the soot

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mode appears from engine start and little changes as temperature gradually increases. The

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contribution of the sub-20 nm mode to total particle concentration is higher when the engine is

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cold. This is evident for all driving conditions and both vehicles by looking at the EEPS size

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distributions or by comparing the number concentration of particles larger of 23 nm with the

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concentration of particles above 7 nm or 2.5 nm. In fact, the majority of particles during cold

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start are in the sub-20 nm range. The NM concentration gradually weakens at steady speed

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conditions in time, in particular for the bus and the 40 km/h truck cases, while the soot mode

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becomes relatively stronger. This is a typical behavior of combustion generated aerosol where

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higher in-cylinder temperatures improve fuel volatilization and reduce volatile and semi-volatile

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particle formation.26

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On the contrary to fired conditions, the mean particle size and concentration of sub-20 nm

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particles during decelerations do not decrease as the engines of both vehicles warm up. In fact,

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the mean size of sub-20 nm particles increases with time, a trend which is more obvious for the

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truck. This is shown in the bottom panels of Figure 3, which provide three characteristic

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instances of size distributions during decelerations. In the bus case, NM practically disappears at

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fired periods and it remains present only during engine motoring periods. The growth in size is

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not as remarkable as in the truck case, but the engine temperature increase in the bus was more

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moderate in this test, from 40ºC to only 60ºC, compared to up to 80ºC for the truck. The general

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findings in Figure 3 were also observed in other driving profiles, which are shown in the SI.


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Figure 3. Time-series of particle characteristics recordings for the truck (left-hand side) and bus

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(right-hand side) over consecutive 20-40-20 km/h speed steps, starting from cold start. From top:

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(a) Engine operation parameters, (b) Particle number concentrations in three different size

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ranges, (c) Real-time particle distributions spectra obtained by EEPS, (d) Typical size

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distributions at decelerations, corresponding to points (i), (ii) and (iii) of panels (b).

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Additional evidence on the source and characteristics of the particles produced during fuel cut-

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off periods is provided by the TEM images combined with EDS analysis (Figure 4). These

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particles were sampled only while the vehicles decelerated, by switching on the TEM-sampler


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pump only during these phases of the driving cycle. Panel (a) shows at relatively low

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magnification the scarce presence of individual particles on the collection medium and the other

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panels focus on individual particles. Some particles (g) are larger than 200 nm and are abundant

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in metal species as a result of component attrition. Other large particles (f) are rich in S and K –

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the latter most often found as a residual of biodiesel production process. Smaller particles, in the

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range of 50 nm (b, c), are found to contain lube oil derived components such as Zn, Ca, and Mg.

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Si has also been observed in some of the particles but some studies consider Si to be a detector

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artifact in such measurements.27, 28 If this is not an artifact, Si can be found directly in engine

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intake if ambient air is not efficiently filtered or in the aged lube oil from the clean-up of ambient

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Si particles that have made their way into the engine. In fact, aluminosilicates and other Si-rich

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particles, similar in morphology to the one shown in panel (e) have been also observed by

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Popovicheva et al.29, 30

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Most interesting are particles in the (c, d, e, h) panels where dark spots smaller than 10 nm

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appear within a halo background. No elemental speciation by EDS could be identified for these

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small particles. Such particles of small “nuggets” within a moderately optical dense material

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were identified by Miller et al.31 when operating on hydrogen fuel and were recognized to be of

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lube oil origin. Kirchner et al.28 also spotted such particles in normal diesel exhaust at idle and

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quoted evidence32,

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surrounded the particles and rapidly evaporated at the TEM conditions. Their conclusion was

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that such a break-up was enhanced in the case of hygroscopic sulfate associated particles. This

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latter hypothesis is supported by Hinkley et al.34 who also observed such shapes under TEM

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observation of high-sulfur coal-fired power station particles and attributed those to crystallization

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of residues from evaporation of acidic sulfate. Kirchner et al.28 noticed that these dark spots

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that attributed the halo background to water ‘explosion’ that originally


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quickly disappeared under the TEM beam. Regardless of the exact origin of the nuggets, the

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original particles these come from are associated with sulfur in all studies. In our case, sulfate

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can only be associated with lube oil as the fuel practically contained only traces of sulfur.

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Figure 4. TEM images of typical particles observed during engine deceleration events

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downstream of the thermodenuder for the truck (a-d) and the bus (e-h). Main elements for each

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particle identified by EDS are designated in the figure. Yellow circles show individual particles

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and green areas show dispersed dark spots (nuggets) in halo. Bottom ribbon shows analysis of

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species found in oil after bus tests. Note different degrees of magnification in each case.

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The contribution of particles observed during decelerations can be a significant fraction of total

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particle emissions (Figure 5). For decelerations from low speeds typical for urban driving (e.g.

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40-20 km/h), the share of such particles can reach one quarter of total number emissions. This is

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due to the relatively high contribution of the number peak observed when deceleration starts


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(Fig.3). For mild decelerations of longer duration from higher speed, the importance of this

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initial peak to total emissions drops and this also decreases the contribution of engine motoring

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particles to total emissions. Over typical transient driving cycles with mixed driving conditions,

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the contribution of engine motoring particles was found to be 9-13%. This is a significant

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contribution from an environmental perspective if one combines their small size, non-volatile

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character, and the fact that the engine is not fueled while these are emitted. It should be again

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repeated that these particles, which are non-volatile and far from an artifact of the sampling

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system, would be excluded from measurement if the sampling protocol used by the Euro VI

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regulation had been followed. This protocol limits control of non-volatile particles above

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23 nm.20 Lowering this cutpoint to 10 nm, as is currently being discussed35, would be beneficial

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in taking into account engine motoring particles as well.

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Figure 5. Share of particles during engine motoring to total particle number emissions for the two

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vehicles and over different driving conditions.

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DISCUSSION

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A high number of nanoparticles at the exhaust of two HDD vehicles during deceleration events

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is observed in this study, confirming previous evidence.16 The particles consisted of a non-

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volatile core below 15 nm, extending down to 2.5 nm (low limit of the instrumentation used),

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and condensation of additional semi-volatile material resulted to the formation of a typical NM

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in the 15-40 nm size range. The number of these particles peaked immediately after the engine

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load was released and the decelerating vehicle started motoring the engine (engine braking). The

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particle number remained at measurable high levels for several seconds (~20 s) after deceleration

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started. Following a cold-start, the particle number and size during repeating decelerations

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increased as the engine warmed up, in contrast to the NM produced during fired conditions

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which became weaker with engine temperature.

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Lube oil is the only possible origin of such particles, as no fuel was injected during engine

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deceleration. Release of stored material from aftertreatment devices like oxidation catalysts

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might have been a secondary source36 but we observed these particles by both vehicles tested and

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one of them was equipped with no aftertreatment device. In fact, their appearance pattern can be

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well explained by the lube-oil consumption model developed by Tornehed & Olofsson37 for

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diesel heavy duty engines. According to this, lube oil is consumed in an engine primarily through

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its exposure to the combustion chamber by means of three mechanical and one physical process.

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The mechanical processes include throw-off during the upward piston movement, reverse blow-

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by during the expansion and intake strokes, and top-land scrapping, especially when deposits

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have accumulated on the piston top land. These processes lead to highest oil consumption over

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the exhaust stroke, owed to the upward piston movement. Evaporation scales with wall and

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piston temperatures, which maximize in fired conditions during the expansion stroke.


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Mechanical processes contribute to liquid oil consumption and hence result to both semivolatile

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and ash PM emissions while evaporation mostly results to vapor oil consumption and hence is

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assumed to contribute to semivolatile PM emissions only.

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Based on these processes, the particle emission peak at the start of the non-fired conditions can

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be explained by oil throw-off and some reverse blow-by as the cylinder pressure in the first

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exhaust strokes during deceleration is considerably relieved compared to the fired conditions and

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a new pressure difference between the cylinder and the crankcase is established. Both vehicles

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had an open crankcase ventilation system so no crankcase gas was returned back to the intake. A

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closed crankcase ventilation system might further augment the presence of these particles during

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decelerations. In parallel, temperature decrease with time reduces oil evaporation and, as a result,

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a large source of semivolatile material ceases. This can explain why particle concentration

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gradually drops during the deceleration but it is not eliminated for at least a 20 s period.

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Knowledge of the composition of these particles could provide hints regarding their formation

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pathways. However, these are too small to reliably detect composition, even when using EDS

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combined with TEM. Hence, one may only hypothesize they originate either from ash or heavy

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organic material. Volatilization of lube oil ash particles can occur at the high temperature zone of

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combustion. Vapors can then re-nucleate to form such smaller particles, repeatedly found in the

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5-8 nm range. This is a high-temperature process and is possible when the flame consumes the

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lube oil mist while this is mixed with fuel and air in the combustion zone. However, this cannot

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be the main mechanism during engine motoring, when no combustion occurs. During engine

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motoring, lube oil ash should rather end up unprocessed to exhaust PM, similar to those larger

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particles shown in Figure 4(c,e,f,g).


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Heavy organic compounds with metals, sulfur, or other minerals, are a more probable origin of

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core mode particles during engine motoring. The majority of hydrocarbon species in the lube oil

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are above C34, reaching at least up to C50.38 Pentacontane (C50H102), for example, has a boiling

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point of ~580ºC at ambient pressure, hence it would definitely survive in the particulate phase

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while lube oil mist is scavenged out of the cylinder during engine motoring. Partial oxidation of

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lube oil droplets may also lead to heavier oxygenated lube oil derived species; lube oil thermal

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oxidation is the main mechanism of heavy sludge formation in the crankcase. These mostly

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organic core particles would then act as sites for sulfate and lighter organics condensation to

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occur in the tailpipe or during sampling, which would increase their mean size to the 15-40 nm

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range. The pattern of small nuggets in halo observed with TEM (Figure 4c,d,e,h) would confirm

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such a mechanism, where nuggets are the heavy organic or organometallic species and

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condensed semi-volatile species, partly removed at TEM conditions, make up the halo.

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We may hypothesize that the core mode particles observed under engine motoring conditions

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due to lube oil may also partly explain core mode particles under fired conditions for both

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diesel21,

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significantly vary in terms of size between motored and fired conditions. Previous studies with

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TEM images28, 31 also observed nuggets in halo for fired conditions. The primarily organic origin

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of these spots would also be consistent to their translucent image under some TEM

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observations25 and their quick disappearance under the electron beam.28 The significant role of

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lube oil in core mode particles may also explain why Lähde et al.39 could not establish a link

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between core mode and fuel injection pressure, while such a link was clear for the soot mode size

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and concentration. Also, the fact they could not observe a core mode at low load may be

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associated with the low consumption of lube oil at low load.37

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and premixed combustion.31,

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Figure 2 showed that the core mode did not


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The formation of core mode due to organics in the cylinder would be consistent to the charge

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of these particles being equivalent to a Boltzmann distribution of around 600ºC,25, 42 i.e. much

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lower than typical combustion temperatures. Indeed, most of the lube oil is exposed to the

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cylinder at the end of the exhaust stroke, i.e. when the temperature has dropped below 800ºC.37

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This does not imply that all core mode particles under fired mode are produced in this manner.

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Core mode concentrations can be much higher than what we have observed here21 while high

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concentrations of nanoparticles have been also observed in flames when no lube oil is present.43,

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the core mode.25, 39 Combustion processes43 and ash volatilization at high temperature may be

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additional sources of core mode particles at fired conditions. Additional core mode formation

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during combustion though does not contradict the fact that a large number of non-volatile

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nanoparticles under fired or motoring conditions is the direct result of unburned lube oil

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emission.

Finally, it is not clear how a pure lube-oil mechanism could explain observed EGR effects on

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Understanding and characterizing core mode particles is important. Primary organometallic

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particles of this small size would be fully or totally combusted during DPF regeneration and

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could liberate inorganic species at an almost molecular level that gradually penetrate through the

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filter wall45 or contribute to the formation of new particles by recondensation downstream of the

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DPF during regenerations.46, 47 Identifying the oil species related to the process and introducing

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relevant lube oil refinements could therefore reduce much of the problem. Most importantly, as

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these particles act as core for the formation of nucleation mode, refinement of the lube oil could

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have a direct effect on emissions of non-DPF equipped diesel vehicles still in operation in

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millions around the world today. This would offer a potential emissions reduction remedy that

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questionable effectiveness. In fact, similar particles have been observed in the exhaust of spark

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ignition engines during engine motoring,16, 48 therefore lube oil refinement is expected to have

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positive effects on the emissions of light duty vehicles as well.

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The association of core mode particles during decelerations to lube oil consumption was

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largely phenomenological in the current study, in the absence of an alternative plausible

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mechanism. Moreover, the tests were performed in diesel engines of long service life and

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subsequent wear. Repeating the research with different engine technologies and more recent

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engines, including spark ignition ones, would be necessary to potentially generalize the

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conclusions of this study. Experiments using lube oils of different formulation and ash and sulfur

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content would shed more light to the formation mechanisms of such particles.

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instrumentation; time series of particle concentration and size distributions over transient tests.

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This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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*Phone: +30 23 10 99 60 03, Facsimile: +30 23 10 99 60 12, email: [email protected]

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Authors would like to express their gratitude to VTT’s heavy duty chassis dynamometer staff

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for their work in the experiments. Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) is acknowledged for

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