Source apportionment of aerosol particles at a European air pollution hot spot using particle number size distributions and chemical composition

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10378419" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10378419 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68081715:_____/18:00481951 RIV/67985858:_____/18:00481951 RIV/68378041:_____/18:00481951

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.097" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.097</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.097" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.097</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Source apportionment of aerosol particles at a European air pollution hot spot using particle number size distributions and chemical composition

Original language description

Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian region (Czech Republic) is a European air pollution hot spot for airborne particulate matter (PM), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and ultrafine particles (UFPs). Air pollution source apportionment is essential for implementation of successful abatement strategies. UFPs or nanoparticles of diameter &lt;100 nm exhibit the highest deposition efficiency in human lungs. To permit apportionment of PM sources at the hot-spot including nanoparticles, Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) was applied to highly time resolved particle number size distributions (NSD, 14 nm-10 mu m) and PM0.09-1.15 chemical composition. Diurnal patterns, meteorological variables, gaseous pollutants, organic markers, and associations between the NSD factors and chemical composition factors were used to identify the pollution sources. The PMF on the NSD reveals two factors in the ultrafine size range: industrial UFPs (28%, number mode diameter - NMD 45 nm), industrial/fresh road traffic nanoparticles (26%, NMD 26 nm); three factors in the accumulation size range: urban background (24%, NMD 93 nm), coal burning (14%, volume mode diameter - VMD 0.5 mu m), regional pollution (3%, VMD 0.8 mu m) and one factor in the coarse size range: industrial coarse particles/road dust (2%, VMD 5 mu m). The PMF analysis of PM0.09-1.15 revealed four factors: SIA/CC/BB (52%), road dust (18%), sinter/steel (16%), iron production (16%). The factors in the ultrafine size range resolved with NSD have a positive correlation with sinter/steel production and iron production factors resolved with chemical composition. Coal combustion factor resolved with NSD has moderate correlation with SIA/CC/BB factor. The organic markers homohopanes correlate with coal combustion and the levoglucosan correlates with urban background. The PMF applications to NSD and chemical composition datasets are complementary. PAHs in PM1 were found to be associated with coal combustion factor.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GBP503%2F12%2FG147" target="_blank" >GBP503/12/G147: Centre for studies on toxicity of nanoparticles</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Pollution

ISSN

0269-7491

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

234

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March 2018

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

145-154

UT code for WoS article

000426225100016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85034733357