A review of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Sources, fate and behavior

Baek, Sung‐Ok; Field, Robert A.; Goldstone, M.E.; Kirk, P.W.W.; Lester, J.N.; Perry, R.

doi:10.1007/bf00282628

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“…It seems that unsubstituted PAHs are the most abundant components, which also suggests combustion or pyrolysis process is dominant for the PAHs in this study. 37 Furthermore, B(ghi)P is a known marker of traffic exhausts 38 with an average of 11% of the total PAHs concentrations in this study, which further reflects the important effect of the traffic on PAHs in Beijing suburban greenhouse soil.…”

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confidence: 52%

Organic contamination in the greenhouse soils from Beijing suburbs, China

Chu

2003

J. Environ. Monitor.

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Selected persistent organic pollutants including HCHs, DDTs and PAHs together with PAEs were determined in the greenhouse soils from Beijing suburbs. The total concentrations were 11.64-29.80 ng g 21 for HCHs, 18.04-101.33 ng g 21 for DDTs, 1.34-3.15 mg g 21 for PAEs and 1.92-7.84 mg g 21 for PAHs, respectively. Predominance of b-HCH in all samples was obviously observed, suggesting a lack of new HCHs sources. High concentrations of DDE and DDD in comparison to their parents in the samples indicated that most of the DDT had been transformed into its metabolites. The contamination of PAHs was relatively serious and the most abundant compounds were 4-, 5-and 6-ring unsubstituted PAHs. The profiles reflect the important effect of traffic on the PAHs remaining in greenhouse soils. Three phthalate esters (DIBP, DnBP and DEHP) accounted for more than 97% of the phthalates studied. Analysis of n-alkanes was also performed in order to trace the natural or anthropogenic sources of hydrocarbons. Characterization and identification of these compounds in greenhouse soil may help in development of strategies to be used in monitoring organic pollutants in this region.

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Section: Pahssupporting

confidence: 52%

Organic contamination in the greenhouse soils from Beijing suburbs, China

Chu

2003

J. Environ. Monitor.

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“…The former refers to processes related to petroleum products, such as oil spills, etc. [21], while the later include combustion courses like fossil fuel combustion, forest fires, biomass burning, smelters, automobile exhaust, etc. [20].…”

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A wintertime study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 and PM2.5–10 in Beijing: Assessment of energy structure conversion

Wang

Cheng

et al. 2008

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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“…Users directly exposed to combustion smoke may receive a large dose of these pollutants and be threatened by the carcinogenic risk associated with them. PAHs as well as numerous PAH derivatives, i.e., alkylated PAHs, nitro-PAHs, oxygenated PAHs, quinones, hydroxy and hydroxynitro compounds, are produced by the incomplete combustion of fuels such as coal, gasoline, diesel and biofuels (Beak et al, 1991;Matsumoto et al, 1998). The mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of PAHs associated with combustion and ambient aerosols have been conclusively demonstrated through bacterial assays, human cell mutagenicity assays, animal assays and epidemiological studies (Hannigan et al, 1998;Helmig et al, 1992;Kamens et al, 1984;Kleindienst et al, 1986;Mastrangelo et al, 1996;McCrillis et al, 1992;Moller and Alfheim, 1980).…”

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confidence: 99%