Comparative evaluation of some pollutants in the airborne particulate matter in Eastern and Western Europe: two-city study, Bucharest–Stuttgart

Characterization and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Ambient PM10 and PM2.5 in an Integrated Iron and Steel Industry Zone Compared with a Background Site

“…The results suggested the maximum element concentration was 5.54 µg/m 3 of Fe in PM 10 at HG (Hjortenkrans et al, 2007) Cr Coal and oil combustion (Tian et al, 2010) Rubber tire wear and vehicle emission(as an active agent in catalytic converters) (Galvagno et al, 2002;Pastuszka et al, 2010) Cu Smelting furnace burning (Yang et al, 2003) Vehicle emission(diesel combustion and brake lining wear) (Weckwerth, 2001;Manoli et al, 2002;Xia and Gao, 2011) Coal combustion (Thurston and Spengler, 1985) Mn Steel smelting Coal combustion (Deng et al, 2014) Ni Petroleum and coal combustion (Cercasov et al, 1998;Tian et al, 2012) Production and recycling of nickel-cadmium batteries (Morselli et al, 2003) Pb Steel, plastics and pigments production (Li et al, 2012) Coal combustion (Zhang et al, 2009) Lead gasoline (Yang et al, 2003) Waste incineration (Zhang et al, 2002) V Mining and smelting of vanadium (Hope, 1997) Oil combustion (Cercasov et al, 1998) Zn Steel smelting Burning of incinerators, coal-fired boiler (Thurston and Spengler, 1985;Yang et al, 2003) Waste incineration (Deng et al, 2006) Vehicle emission (gasoline engine emissions and tire wearing) (Salvador et al, 2004;Fang et al, 2006) site. Fe was found to be the dominated metal in PM 10 and PM 2.5 and contributed significantly to the total detected metal mass loading ranges from 50%-76% at the two sampling sites.…”

Technical note: concentration and composition of airborne aerobic bacteria inside an enclosed rabbit shed

“…Moreover, their light weight enables a longer suspension time in the air (Bakutis et al, 2004). Aerosols incorporating microbe-containing particulates are known as microbial aerosols (Cercasov et al, 1998;Hameed et al, 2012). In places where animals are concentrated, sneezing and coughing of animals generates an aerosol with saliva and mucus as the main components, known as droplets.…”

Multielemental Characterization of Airborne Particulate Matter Collected in Bucharest and Tokushima by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry

“…The total concentrations of Pb (43.9 ng m -3 ) and Sb (1.73 ng m -3 ), which were obtained as a summation of the concentrations in all of the size fractions listed in Table 2, were significantly lower than those data (Pb 334 -460 ng m -3 , Sb 6.7 -10.7 ng m -3 ) in the PM sample observed at Bucharest in 1998, reported by Cercasov et al 7 The decrease of Pb was due to a decreasing use of leaded gasoline, which had been banned at the end of 2004. 12 The EFs in the PM samples collected at Bucharest in 2005 and Tokushima in 2006 are summarized in Fig.…”

“…Cercasov et al reported that the concentration trends of 17 elements in PM samples, which were collected with an Andersen sampler at the outskirt of Bucharest measured by neutron activation analysis and X-ray fluorescence analysis, were compared with those at Stuttgart in Germany. 7 However, recent systematical studies for PM in the atmospheric environment of Romania have been a very few for over ten years. 7,8 Because the small amount of data was caused by limited availability of the air monitoring infrastructure in Romania due to economical and political disorder for over 10 years since the democratic revolution in 1989.…”

“…7 However, recent systematical studies for PM in the atmospheric environment of Romania have been a very few for over ten years. 7,8 Because the small amount of data was caused by limited availability of the air monitoring infrastructure in Romania due to economical and political disorder for over 10 years since the democratic revolution in 1989. Thus, we conducted a pilot study concerning for collection and elemental characterization of over 30 elements in airborne particulate matter at Bucharest in 2005.…”