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Settleable matter in a highly industrialized area: Chemistry and health risk assessment
- Source :
- Chemosphere. 274
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Settleable particulate matter (SPM) was collected at two sampling points within an urban area highly affected by nearby industrial activities. Total deposition values up to 386 mg ·m−2·d−1 were registered, the majority of samples exceeding the limit value established in the legislation in force in Spain until 2002 (300 mg·m−2·d−1). Dry deposition values showed high variability (8.6–830.3 mg·m−2·d−1). Forty-one metals and metalloids were analysed in the dry fraction of SPM, the main being Fe and Ca (maximums: 304.4 and 68.6 mg·m−2·d−1, respectively), followed by Al, Mg, Na, K, Mn, Ti, P and Zn. Trace elements like As and Pb reached up to 7.3 and 76.3 μg· m−2·d−1, respectively. Strong correlations (r > 0.90, p-value Furthermore, a human health risk study was carried out to assess the potential carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risks of exposure to thirteen elements in these particles (Al, As, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sb, Sr, V and Zn). The highest levels of risk seemed to be associated with the presence of As, Pb and Sb.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Limit value
0208 environmental biotechnology
High variability
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Risk Assessment
Human health
Metals, Heavy
Environmental Chemistry
Humans
Arsenic
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Air Pollutants
Health risk assessment
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
General Chemistry
Particulates
Pollution
020801 environmental engineering
Deposition (aerosol physics)
chemistry
Spain
Environmental chemistry
Particulate Matter
Metalloid
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18791298
- Volume :
- 274
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemosphere
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4a686e11456dc085e8bd881c5ed374d