This year’s 27th Nanoparticles Conference at ETH Zurich, Switzerland offered a great opportunity to present LENS first results. Ioannis Raptis gave an oral talk regarding on-road measurement of motorcycles’ gaseous and particulate emissions with a focus on black carbon.
Emisia’s RETEMS system that uses commercial ambient gas sensors (CO2, CO, NO) was combined with a novel optoacoustic black carbon sensor co-developed by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki through the RSENSE EU-funded project.
The combined system was used with a custom sampling line to ensure stable exhaust flows, while performing experiments both in the lab and in real-world conditions on the road in Thessaloniki as part of the LENS measurements.
The results were met with enthusiasm by the scientific community as this is the first time that both gaseous pollutants and black carbon can be measured from motorcycle exhaust on the road, giving new opportunities to improve real-world emissions inventories.