Agenda, Presentations and Posters of the 24^th Conference

24^th ETH Nanoparticles Conference (NPC), June 22^nd to 24^th, 2021

The ETH Nanoparticles Conference (NPC) in 2021 was organized as an online conference under the auspice of the Swiss Chemical Society (see website of the online conference, https://nanoparticles21.scg.ch). It served as an interdisciplinary platform for expert discussions on all aspects of nanoparticles, freshly emitted from various sources, aged in ambient air, technical mitigation aspects, impact of particles on health, environment and climate and particle legislation. The conference brought together representatives from research, industry and legislation.

Agenda of Presentations

Tuesday June 22, 2021

Welcome and Conference Opening by Gold Sponsors	10.00
Ambient, Indoor and Climate A Chair: Christoph Hüglin, Empa
Jörg Sintermann, Canton Zürich, AWEL Ultrafine particle concentrations in Kloten near the Zurich Airport (CH)	10.20	pdf
Katarzyna Szramowiat-Sala, AGH University of Science and Technology Macro tracer model as a techniwue for source apportionment of particulate matter in Krakow agglomeration – an optimization approach	10.40	pdf
Morten Køcks, Danish Technological Institute Clean air test-zone – reduction of emissions from wood stove	11.00	pdf
Benjamin T Brem, Paul Scherrer Institute Occurrence and Radiative Properties of Long-range Transported Wildfire Aerosol Measured at the Jungfraujoch	11.20	pdf
Exhitibor Introduction Chair: Heinz Burtscher, FHNW/ISE	11.40
LUNCH BREAK	12.20
Aircraft, Marine and Non-Road Chair: Martin Stöckli, Inspire AG
Ismael Kenneth Ortega, ONERA The UNREAL (Unveiling nucleation mechanism in aircraft engine exhaust and its link with fuel composition) project: Results from simulation chamber and reactor experiments	13.00	pdf
Rafael Barrellon-Vernay, ONERA Impact of fuel composition on primary and secondary aeronautic emissions: gaseous and particulate chemical characterization at molecular level	13.20	pdf
David Kittelson, University of Minnesota Particle Emissions from Aircraft Gas Turbines: A Coarse Size Mode from Low Emission Engines	13.40	pdf
Niina Kuittinen, Tampere University Assessment of global particle number emissions from shipping and effect of scrubbers	14.00	pdf
Uwe Etzien, University of Rostock Analysis of the influence of marine fuels on particle emissions from ships	14.20	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	14.40
Metrology and Legislation A Chair: Oliver Bischof, TSI
Matteo Kammerer, University of Stuttgart Evaluating the performance of a particle counting sensor based on continuous-wave laser-induced incandescence	14.50	pdf
Christos Dardiotis, AVL List GmbH Dual particle counter for measuring simultaneously automotive exhaust solid particle number emissions larger than 10 nm and 23 nm	15.10	pdf
Irena Ježek, Aerosol d.o.o. Super Polluter IDentifiER (SPIDER) – a tool for on-road detection of vehicles that contribute disproportionally to the vehicle fleet emissions	15.30	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	15.50
Poster Session 1 (6x3min Video) Chair: Loretta Müller, DBMR University of Bern, Inselspital

Wednesday June 23, 2021

Emission control and aftertreatment Chair: Martin Stöckli, Inspire AG
Pablo Mendoza Villafuerte, AECC - Association for Emissions Control by Catalysts Ultra-Low PN10 Emissions of a Close-Coupled Emission Control System on a Heavy-duty Truck Application	10.00	pdf
Andy Thawko, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Particle emission from direct injection internal combustion engine fed with various gaseous fuels	10.20	pdf
Hitesh Bharat Chaudhari, Automotive Research Association of India High Dimensional Fast-Response Particle Number (PN) Surrogate Model Building Methodology for Heavy Duty (HD) Diesel Engine Applications	10.40	pdf
Michal Vojtisek-Lom, Czech Technical University in Prague Applying lessons learned from diesel exhaust to brake wear nanoparticle measurements and regulation	11.00	pdf
Athanasios Mamakos, AVL List GmbH Solid and volatile brake-wear nanoparticles under real-world operating conditions	11.20	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	11.40
Exhibitor Session Chair: Heinz Burtscher, FHNW/ISE	11.50
LUNCH BREAK	12.40
Health and Toxicity Chair: Loretta Müller, DBMR University of Bern, Inselspital Bern
Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, The University of Montana, USA The development and convergence of co-pathologies associated with Tau, Aβ, α-synuclein and TDP-43 proteinopathies in Metropolitan Mexico City children and young adults: a health crisis is in progress	13.20	pdf
Uschi M. Graham, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Differentiating Translocated Exogenous vs Bio-generated Endogenous Nanoparticle Types in Olfactory Bulb of Humans with Neurodegeneration	13.40	pdf
Alessandra S. Torres Yabar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Impact of Ultrafine Particles on Mental Health	14.00	pdf
Maria Helena Guerra Andersen, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Health effects from combustion ultrafine particles: consistent observations from controlled human exposure studies	14.10	pdf
Svenja Offer, Helmholtz Zentrum München Differential impact of biogenic and anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol compounds adsorbed on soot particles in lung cell models at the air-liquid interface	14.20	pdf
Misha Eliasziw, Tufts University Exposure-response functions relating intensity and duration of ambient traffic-related air pollution to systolic blood pressure	14.30	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	14.40
Metrology and Legislation B Chair: Oliver Bischof, TSI
Ernest Weingartner, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland Development of a new photothermal interferometer for the in-situ measurement of carbonaceous aerosols	14.50	pdf
Gregory J. Smallwood, National Research Council Canada Calibration of Black Carbon Instruments with the CPMA-Electrometer Reference Mass Standard (CERMS)	15.10	pdf
Alejandro Keller, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland Performance of the new continuous carbonaceous aerosol measurement system FATCAT during long term unattended measurement campaigns	15.30	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	15.50
Poster Session 2 (6x3min Video) Chair: Loretta Müller, DBMR University of Bern, Inselspital

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Ambient, Indoor and Climate B Chair: Christoph Hüglin, Empa
Heejung Jung, University of California, Riverside Behavior of particles and gases in vehicle cabin	10.00	pdf
Paul A. Sermon, Brunel University, Uxbridge (UK) Combustion-generated carbonaceous urban atmospheric UFPs: Efficiencies of face mask control of urban atmospheric particulate pollution: A pointer to control of future pandemics	10.20	pdf
Jun Zhang, Paul Scherrer Institute Primary organic aerosol emissions and chemical composition from biomass and cow dung burning characterized using extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry	10.40	pdf
Kun Li, Paul Scherrer Institute Secondary nanoparticles formation and composition from open and residential wood burning	11.00	pdf
Exhitibor Introduction Chair: Heinz Burtscher, FHNW/ISE	11.20
LUNCH BREAK	12.10
Awards Ceremony 2021 Bischof Oliver	12.50
Fundamentals Chair: Norbert Heeb, Empa
Angela Violi, University of Michigan Network analysis for the formation of aromatics in a co-flow flame	13.10	mp4
Leonardo Pachano, IFP Energies nouvelles Study of soot production in ethylene pyrolysis using a sectional model	13.30	pdf
Georgios A. Kelesidis, ETH Zurich Impact of organic carbon on soot light absorption	13.50	pdf
Reza Kholghy, Carleton University, Canada Surface growth, coagulation and oxidation of soot by a monodisperse population balance model	14.10	pdf
Jon Andersson, Ricardo Automotive and Industrial, Shoreham-by-Sea, UK Particle number emissions from a Euro 6d-temp GDI under extreme European temperature and driving conditions	14.30	pdf
COFFEE BREAK	14.50
Focus Event: Combustion and Climate Change Chair: Stephan Renz, Renz Consulting / Andreas Mayer, TTM
Reto Knutti, ETH Zurich Climate change: causes, impacts, scenarios and the need for net zero CO2 emissions	15.00
Ulrike Lohmann, ETH Zurich Future warming exacerbated by aged-soot effect on cloud formation	15.25	pdf
Konstantinos Boulouchos, ETH Zurich Renewable fuels for combustion engines: candidates, energy supply options and policy considerations	15.50	pdf
Martin Babst, Swiss Federal Office for Energy Swiss Energy Perspectives 2050+ - Focus on the transport sector	16.15	pdf
GOODBYE	16.50

Posters

Aircraft, Marine and Non-Road
Katsumi Saitoh, Environmental Science Analysis & Research Laboratory, Japan Elemental and ionic analysis of aircraft engine smoke number filter samples with micro-PIXE and IC		mp4
Lukas Durdina, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Intercomparison of two reference sampling and measurement systems for aircraft engine non-volatile PM using a small-scale RQL combustor rig burning conventional and sustainable aviation fuels		pdf, mp4
Jason Scott, Carleton University Morphology, Composition and Optical Properties of Jet Engine-like Soot Made by Flame Spray Pyrolysis		mp4
Akihiro Fushimi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Organic analysis of aircraft engine smoke number filter samples with thermal-optical carbon analysis and thermal desorption–gas chromatography/mass spectrometry		pdf, mp4
Holger Gerwig, UBA Ultrafine particle dispersion modelling at Frankfurt airport and Rhine-Main-Area, Germany		mp4
Ambient, Indoor and Climate
Moh Naseem, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Abundance and distribution of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate nitrate (pNO3−) at an urban site of Delhi-NCR		mp4
Alfred Lawrence, Isabella Thoburn College Air Quality Variation in Six Most Polluted Cities of Northern India during Diwali 2020		mp4
Amarjeet Rathee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Carbonaceous Aerosol at Breathing Height during Wintertime in Ambient Atmosphere of National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India		mp4
Y Cheng, Brunel University, Uxbridge (UK) Combustion-generated carbonaceous urban atmospheric UFPs: Fuel optimisation in transport and decentralized electricity economies to minimise their production and impact		pdf, mp4
Imran Aslam, KU Leuven Detection and quantification of combustion-derived particles in aqueous media: towards the development of a diagnostic biomedical assay		pdf, mp4
Agne Minderyte, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology Determination of Absorption Ångström Exponent Values for Black Carbon source apportionment Aethalometer Model in Urban Background Environment		mp4
Julija Pauraite, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology Effects of Outdoor Smoke Events on Indoor air Quality		pdf, mp4
Amit Yadav, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Fine Particulate Matter Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Species in Ambient Atmosphere of Delhi: Concentration, Sources, and Associated Health Risk Assessment		mp4
Peter Wahman, Minnesota State University Mankato Non-Linear Correction Methods Applied to Long Term Deployment of Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors		mp4
Nagendra Raparthi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Optical properties of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols from on-road vehicles		mp4
Daria Pashneva, Department of Environmental research Outdoor-indoor concentration of black carbon during high pollution events in urban environment		mp4
Kunfeng Gao, Beihang University Soot particle ice nucleation ability dependence on their volatile content		pdf, mp4
Linda Bondorf, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Towards the reduction of brake and tire emissions: The Zero Emission Drive Unit (ZEDU-1)		pdf, mp4
Fundamentals
Martin Irwin, Catalytic Instruments A Silver Particle Generator for PN-PEMS Calibration and Validation		mp4
Min Zhang, Technical University of Denmark Effects of ambient CO2 and H2O on soot formation in n-dodecane spray combustion		pdf, mp4
José Moràn, INSA Rouen Effects of overlapping in the evaluation of volume and surface area of complex soot aggregates in flames		pdf, mp4
Parminder Kaur, Tripura University Surface Electron Microscope Based Morphological and Chemical Characterization of Combustion Generated Aerosols		mp4
Emission control and aftertreatment
Mengzhao Chang, Chonnam National University Effect of High Temperature Fuel Injection on Atomization Characteristics of Gasoline Direct Injection Injector		mp4
Tayebeh Hamzehlouyan, Sharif University of Technology Investigation of the aging effect on the activity of a wiremesh oxidation catalyst as an emission control device for 4-stroke gasoline carburetor motorcycles		mp4
Wiktor Pacura, AGH University of Science and Technology Non-regulated emissions from the gasoline vehicles – an ion chromatography analysis of the anions		mp4
Shimon Pisnoy, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Numerical Investigation of Soot Formation and Oxidation in Wankel Rotary Engine Using Particulate Mimic Soot Model		mp4
Sahar Bagheri, University of Technology, Sydney Real Driving Characterization of DPF Regeneration Events in Euro-5 Light Duty Diesel Vehicles in the Australian fleet		mp4
Dal Shin, Chonnam National University Study for Reducing Fuel Consumption of Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles using OBD Driving Data and Machine Learning		mp4
Agnese Magno, STEMS-CNR Sub-23 nm particle contribution from DI spark ignition engines fueled with gasoline and ethanol blends: PMP compliant measurement and digital filtering		mp4
Marek Wozniak, Lodz University of Technology, Poland The investigations of emission of a variable compress ratio internal combustion engine driving the power generator		mp4
Health and Toxicity
Woranan Netkueakul, ETH Zurich In vitro toxicity of airborne emissions from combustion of graphene nanoplatelet-enabled epoxy nanocomposites		pdf, mp4
Tahmeena Khan, Integral University A Critical Analysis of COVID-19 with Special Emphasis to Air Quality and its Consequences		mp4
Violaine de Lagarde, University of Rouen Normandy Characterization of oxidative potential and toxicology in vitro study of fine and ultrafine PM generated by smoke grenades shots		mp4
Michal Vojtisek-Lom, Czech Technical University in Prague Portable exhaust toxicity system: A concept of a portable air-liquid interface cell exposure system for laboratory and on-road assessment of exhaust toxicity		mp4
Angela Violi, University of Michigan Predicting the permeation of PAHs and nanoparticles through biological cells		mp4
Markus Rehberg, Helmholtz-Zentrum München Real time in vivo investigation early alveolar neutrophil dynamics during ventilator-assisted nanoparticle inhalation		mp4
Metrology and Legislation
Tobias Rüggeberg, FHNW Handheld Emission Particle Counter for testing diesel particle filters of off-road engines		pdf, mp4
Jorge Saturno, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) MetroPEMS: Metrology for portable emission measurement systems. Project goals and preliminary findings		mp4
Alejandro Keller, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Novel, all-in-one apparatus for stable and reproducible generation of atmospherically relevant aerosols using simulated atmospheric aging		mp4
Michal Vojtisek-Lom, Czech Technical University in Prague Potential of portable on-board FTIR analyzers for real driving emissions and chase vehicle monitoring		mp4
PEMS, PTI
Anssi Arffman, Dekati Ltd. Characterization of the ePNC number counter for annual PTI and testing applications		mp4
Erkka Saukko, Pegasor Oy, Tampere, Finland Fast PN-PTI sensor based on electrical detection and real-time particle size estimation		mp4
Chas Frederickson, University of California, Riverside In-Use Emission Measurements from Two High-Speed Passenger Ferries Operating in California		mp4
Daisy Thomas, 3DATX Corporation Measuring and reporting PN and PM values from vehicles with different engines, aftertreatment technologies and fuel types		mp4
Seongin Jo, Chonnam National University Study on the Emission Level of Heavy-duty Vehicles in South Korea according to Real Driving Emission Regulation		mp4