Abstract
A photochemical reactor for studies of atmospheric kinetics and spectroscopy has been built at the Copenhagen Center for Atmospheric Research. The reactor consists of a vacuum FTIR spectrometer coupled to a 100 L quartz cylinder by multipass optics mounted on electropolished stainless steel end flanges, surrounded by UV-A, UV-C and broadband sun lamps in a temperature-controlled housing. The combination of a quartz vessel and UV-C lamps allows higher concentrations of O( 1D) and OH than can be generated by similar chambers. The reactor is able to produce radical concentrations of ca. 8 × 10 11 cm −3 for OH, 3 × 10 6 cm −3 for O( 1D), 3.3 × 10 10 cm −3 for O( 3P) and 1.6 × 10 12 cm −3 for Cl. The reactor can be operated at pressures from 10 −3 to 10 3 mbar and temperatures from 240 to 330 K. As a test of the system we have studied the reaction CHCl 3 + Cl using the relative rate technique and find k CHCl3+Cl/k CH4+Cl = 1.03 ± 0.11, in good agreement with the accepted value.
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