Monitoring of Ship Plumes

Pollution from ships affect the atmospheric environment with significant impacts on health and climate. Regulations target the sulfur content of fuels, while ships continue to emit large amounts of soot, organic pollutants, and metals. The contribution of ships to local air pollution is difficult to determine in complex environments. Our new technologies for single-particle mass spectrometry (SPMS) enhance the sensitivity to ship markers, i.e. particle-bound metals from bunker fuel combustion and provide new insights into the particles’ organic content, featuring novel marker schemes based on the particle’s organic composition. The research is embedded in the projects SAARUS (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Project Promoter Jülich), LUKAS (dtec.bw,  Zentrum für Digitalisierungs- und Technologieforschung der Bundeswehr) and ZIM-Projekt 16KN083626 - SEP-3AP.

Co-workers: Dr. Julian Schade, Ellen Iva Rosewig, Paul Haubenwallner, Dr. Robert Irsig