Characterisation of Particulate Matter Sampled During a Study of Children’s Personal Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter in a UK Urban Environment

Wheeler, Amanda; Williams, I.D.; Beaumont, Richard A.; Hamilton, R.

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-0932-4_8

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“…However, personal PM 10 levels were not significantly higher than indoor PM 10 levels measured in homes during the same periods (52.2 ± 30.6 µg/m 3 ). The PM levels in this study are similar in magnitude to levels of indoor home PM 2.5 and PM 10 and personal PM 10 measured in previous studies for children in urban locations (74)(75)(76)(77). Although children living in homes with at least one smoker tended to have higher PM exposures than children living in nonsmoking homes, this was not always the case.…”

Section: Particulate Matter Exposure Assessmentsupporting

confidence: 84%

Assessment of personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter among children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA).

Keeler

Dvonch

Yip

et al. 2002

Environ Health Perspect

112

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We report on the research conducted by the Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA) in Detroit, Michigan, to evaluate personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter (PM) among children with asthma living in an urban environment. CAAA is a community-based participatory research collaboration among academia, health agencies, and community-based organizations. CAAA investigates the effects of environmental exposures on the residents of Detroit through a participatory process that engages participants from the affected communities in all aspects of the design and conduct of the research; disseminates the results to all parties involved; and uses the research results to design, in collaboration with all partners, interventions to reduce the identified environmental exposures. The CAAA PM exposure assessment includes four seasonal measurement campaigns each year that are conducted for a 2-week duration each season. In each seasonal measurement period, daily ambient measurements of PM 2.5 and PM 10 (particulate matter with a mass median aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm and 10 µm, respectively) are collected at two elementary schools in the eastside and southwest communities of Detroit. Concurrently, indoor measurements of PM 2.5 and PM 10

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Section: Particulate Matter Exposure Assessmentsupporting

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Assessment of personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter among children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA).

Keeler

Dvonch

Yip

et al. 2002

Environ Health Perspect

112

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“…In addition to lead, also Ni, Cd, and As, classified by the IARC as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), never exceeded standard annual outdoor levels (20,6, and 5 ng/m 3 , resp.) settled by European Commission (EC) [28].…”

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Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality Assessment at School near the Steel Plant in Taranto (Italy)

Gilio

Farella

Marzocca

et al. 2017

Advances in Meteorology

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This study aims to investigate the air quality in primary school placed in district of Taranto (south of Italy), an area of high environmental risk because of closeness between large industrial complex and urban settlement. The chemical characterization of PM2.5 was performed to identify origin of pollutants detected inside school and the comparison between indoor and outdoor levels of PAHs and metals allowed evaluating intrusion of outdoor pollutants or the existence of specific indoor sources. The results showed that the indoor and outdoor levels of PM2.5, BaP, Cd, Ni, As, and Pb never exceeded the target values issued by World Health Organization (WHO). Nevertheless, high metals and PAHs concentrations were detected especially when school were downwind to the steel plant. The / ratio showed the impact of outdoor pollutants, especially of industrial markers as Fe, Mn, Zn, and Pb, on indoor air quality. This result was confirmed by values of diagnostic ratio as B(a)P/B(g)P, IP/(IP + BgP), BaP/Chry, and BaP/(BaP + Chry), which showed range characteristics of coke and coal combustion. However, Ni and As showed / ratio of 2.5 and 1.4, respectively, suggesting the presence of indoor sources.

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“…The TSP and PM 10 in open pit mining regions reduce air quality and can cause silicosis, black lung (CWP), and increased mortality. They also reduce visibility and affect surrounding flora and fauna (NIOSH 2005;Wheeler et al 2000).…”

Section: Open Pit Mining In Northern Colombiamentioning

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Assessing precision and accuracy of atmospheric emission inventories

Huertas

Díaz

2012

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Assuming that state-of-the-art air quality models are accurate, then the precision and accuracy of their results directly depend on the precision and accuracy of their geographical, meteorological and emission input data. There are important applications, such as open pit mining, in which emission data are the main source of uncertainty. In such cases, historical air quality experimental data are typically available. The present work proposes a backward air quality simulation approach to assess the accuracy of emission inventories for these applications, with the goal of identifying sources that are over or underestimated. This approach consists of finding constants of the linear combination of the estimated emission that maximize R 2 and make the slope equal to one in the linear correlation analysis when the results from the air quality model are compared to the experimental measurements of air quality. This methodology was applied to the case of the mining region in northern Colombia. As one of the largest open pit coal mining regions in the world, this region consists of seven independent mines with no relevant additional sources of emission. Use of the proposed methodology allowed quantification of the amount by which companies over or underestimated their emission, as well as quantification of uncertainties due to sources not considered in the model but that locally affect each monitoring station.

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Characterisation of Particulate Matter Sampled During a Study of Children’s Personal Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter in a UK Urban Environment

Cited by 33 publications

References 6 publications

Assessment of personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter among children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA).

Assessment of personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter among children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA).

Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality Assessment at School near the Steel Plant in Taranto (Italy)

Assessing precision and accuracy of atmospheric emission inventories

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