Levels, sources and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Brno, Czech Republic: A five year study

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F16%3APU119645" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/16:PU119645 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-016-7172-5" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-016-7172-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-7172-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11356-016-7172-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Levels, sources and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Brno, Czech Republic: A five year study

Original language description

This work aimed to determine the seasonal variations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in airborne PM10 at two background sites (Masná – MS, Líšeň – LN) in Brno over a five year period (2009–2013). Samples were collected on quartz filters using a low-volume sampler by continual filtration. Concentrations of PAHs in collected PM10 samples were determined using a gas chromatography with a mass spectrometer as a detector. A different number of PAHs were determined to be at each site i.e. 11 PAHs at the MS site and 6 PAHs at the LN site, and similarities between them were identified using non-parametric analysis of variance. Potential sources were identified using principal component analysis (PCA) and PAHs diagnostic ratios. The work also focused on health risk assessment. This was estimated using toxic equivalent factors to calculate individual lifetime cancer risk, which quantifies risk of exposure to PAHs for specific age groups. The average 11-PAHs concentrations in M|S site annually ranged from 19.28 ± 19.02 ng m−3 (2011) to 40.37 ± 21.35 ng m−3 (2013). With regard to the LN site the average 6-PAHs concentration annually ranged from 3.64 ± 3.87 ng m−3 (2009) and 5.27 ± 6.19 ng m−3 (2012). PCA and diagnostic ratios indicate the main sources to be traffic emissions and coal combustion. Health risk assessment showed carcinogenic risk under limit value in all cases.

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

10510 - Climatic research

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1202" target="_blank" >LO1202: NETME CENTRE PLUS</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

ISSN

0944-1344

e-ISSN

1614-7499

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

20

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

20462-20473

UT code for WoS article

000387599100036

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84979662965