Description
During our beamtime on 25-26 March 2024 and 10 May 2024 the XANES technique (SOLARIS ASTRA beamline) has been used to study absorption K-edges of sulphur, chlorine, potassium, iron and zinc of 8 aerosols samples (PM2.5) collected in Krakow during summer and winter 2018/2019 and 2020/2021. A set of 17 reference samples (sulfides, sulphates and bisulphates of NH4, K, Na, Ca, Zn, Fe and Cu, potassium chloride, potassium carbonate and bicarbonate, potassium nitride) was studied as well. The results show that PM2.5 XANES spectra at S absorption K-edge have different characteristics in summer and winter. Samples of PM2.5 collected in summer contain mostly sulfates. On the other hand, spectra from samples collected in winter additionally contain peaks of KHSO4, NaHSO4, NH4HSO4, ZnS and sulphur in organic compounds. The Table 1 below shows our XANES results at the K-edge of potassium with the contribution of each compound to potassium in PM2.5 samples collected in winter. The highest contribution to potassium has KHSO4. The contribution is in the range 31-46%. The lower contribution to potassium is observed for KHCO3 and K2SO4. The obtained results for potassium K-edge confirm the results from sulphur K-edge, that during winter bisulphates are present in particulate matter.
Acknowledgements: This study was supported by SOLARIS project no 232073 and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, grant number 16.16.220.842. Thank you Grzegorz Gazdowicz and Lulu Alluhaibi for the support during the measurements.
