Three years of atmospheric concentrations of nitrated and oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and oxygen heterocycles at a central European background site
Language English Country Great Britain, England Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
33121801
DOI
10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128738
PII: S0045-6535(20)32936-2
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Continental background, Gas-particle partitioning, NPAHs, Nitrobenzanthron, OPAHs, Polycyclic aromatic compounds,
- MeSH
- Nitrates MeSH
- Oxygen analysis MeSH
- Air Pollutants * analysis MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Environmental Monitoring MeSH
- Particulate Matter analysis MeSH
- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons * analysis MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic MeSH
- Europe MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Nitrates MeSH
- Oxygen MeSH
- Air Pollutants * MeSH
- Particulate Matter MeSH
- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons * MeSH
Nitrated and oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs, OPAHs) are abundant in the atmosphere and contribute significantly to the health risk associated with inhalation of polluted air. Despite the health hazard they pose, NPAHs and OPAHs were rarely included in monitoring. The aim of this study is to provide the first multi-year temporal trends of the concentrations, composition pattern and fate of NPAHs and OPAHs in air from a site representative of background air quality conditions in central Europe. Samples were collected every second week at a rural background site in the Czech Republic during 2015-2017. Concentrations ranged from 1.3 to 160 pg m-3 for Σ17NPAHs, from 32 to 2600 pg m-3 for Σ10OPAHs and from 5.1 to 4300 pg m-3 for Σ2O-heterocycles. The average particulate mass fraction (θ) ranged from 0.01 ± 0.02 (2-nitronaphthalene) to 0.83 ± 0.22 (1-nitropyrene) for individual NPAHs and from <0.01 ± 0.01 (dibenzofuran) to 0.96 ± 0.08 (6H-benzo (c,d)pyren-6-one) for individual OPAHs and O-heterocycles. The multiyear variations showed downward trends for a number of targeted compounds. This suggests that on-going emission reductions of PAHs are effective also for co-emitted NPAHs and OPAHs.
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Košetice Observatory Košetice Czech Republic
Multiphase Chemistry Department Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz Germany
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