Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons inside and outside of apartments in an urban area

The Occurrence of Pesticides and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Residential Dust in North Carolina

“…(Please refer to Supplemental Materials table 1 for a detailed study comparison.) In addition, our median North Carolina values were higher than similar studies in Germany [29][30][31], Australia [32], Italy [33], and Denmark [34]. Higher median values than those we report for benz(a)anthracene and benzo(a)pyrene were measured in Cape Cod, MA [5] and in Ohio homes [26].Season of sampling might affect the percentile differences across regions.…”

Hazard assessment of chemical air contaminants measured in residences

“…Tables Table 1 Publications (Turpin et al 2007) 48 hrs Los Angeles; Houston; Elizabeth, NJ,US X P X X 157-275 17 (Croxford et al 2006) 1 week London, UK C 270 18 (Jia et al 2008) 3-4 days Michigan, US X X X 251-257 19 (Jo and Lee 2006) 2 hrs Daegu, South Korea C 240 20 (Heroux et al 2009) 24 hrs Saskatchewan, Canada X X NA 217 21 (Long et al 2000) 12 hrs Boston, Massachusetts, US X P 211 22 (Offermann 2009) 24 hrs California, US X X P,C, N X X X 31-211 23 (Jarvis et al 2005) 14 days United Kingdom N 203 24 (Edwards et al 2001) 48 hrs Helsinki, Finland X X X 201 25 (Gordon et al 1999) 6-7 days Arizona, US X X 185 26 (Jia et al 2008) 3-4 days Southeast Michigan, US X X X NA 159 27 (Sexton et al 2004) 2 days Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, US X X 132 28 (Rudel et al 2003) 24 hrs Cape Cod, Massachusetts, US X X 30-120 29 (Fromme et al 2004) 7-8 hrs Berlin, Germany X 115 30 (Simons et al 2007) 3 days Baltimore, Maryland, US X O, P, N 95-109 31 (Weisel 2006) 24 hrs New Jersey, US X X 7-100 32 (Zota et al 2005) 2 weeks Boston, Massachusetts, US X N 100 33 (Guo et al 2009) 24 hrs Hong Kong X X 100 34 (Gilbert et al 2006) 7 days Quebec City, Canada N X 96 36 (Miller et al 2009) 24 hrs Commerce City, Colorado, US X C,P 92-97 37 (Phillips et al 2005) 24 hrs Oklahoma, US X X 90 38 (Kinney et al 2002) 48 hrs West central Harlem, New York, US X P X X X 18-88 39 (Lee et al 2002) 6 days Southern California, US X N,O 92-106 40 (Sorensen et al 2005) 48 hrs Copenhagen, Denmark P,N 73-87 41 (Dodson et al 2008) 24 hrs Boston, Massachusetts, US X X X 83 42 (Janssen et al 2005) 24 hrs Amsterdam/Helsinki P X 82 43 (Garrett et al 1999) 24 hrs Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia N 80 44 24 hrs Ottawa, Ontario, Canada X X 75 45 (Raymer et al 2009) 24 hrs Wisconsin, California, US X X X 47-70 46 (Johnson et al 2004) 3 days Columbus, Ohio, US X C 32-67 47 …”

Indicators of terrestrial biogenic hydrocarbon contamination and linear alkyl benzenes as land-base pollution tracers in marine sediments

“…The high concentrations of fluoranthene were attributed to pyrolytic origin, as reported in some studies mentioning the use of fluoranthene as an indicator of combustion related to vehicle engine sources (diesel or gasoline) (Yunker et al 2002;Deng et al 2013;Inengite et al 2013;Liu et al 2013). Furthermore, benzo [a]anthracene, which ranged from 58 to 1,289 lg kg -1 , has also been used by many authors to characterize areas impacted by traffic emissions (Fromme et al 2004). Chrysene levels ranged from 90 to 1,580.2 lg kg -1…”

“…Previous studies considered chrysene as an indicator of ''burning'' emissions, such as residential heating, waste incinerators and traffic (Fromme et al 2004;Asia et al 2009;Liu et al 2013). In addition, some studies demonstrated the absence of chrysene in petroleum sources.…”