Exposure measurement, risk assessment and source identification for exposure of traffic assistants to particle-bound PAHs in Tianjin, China |
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Authors: | Xiaodan Xue Yan You Jianhui Wu Bin Han Zhipeng Bai Naijun Tang Liwen Zhang |
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Affiliation: | College of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China;College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, TianJin 300071, China;Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, TianJin 300071, China;College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, TianJin 300071, China;Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China;College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, TianJin 300071, China;Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China;College of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China;College of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China |
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Abstract: | To investigate the levels of exposure to particulate-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and to estimate the risk these levels pose to traffic assistants (TAs) in Tianjin (a megacity in North China), a measurement campaign (33 all-day exposure samples, 25 occupational-exposure samples and 10 indoor samples) was conducted to characterize the TAs' exposure to PAHs, assess the cancer risk and identify the potential sources of exposure. The average total exposure concentration of 14 PAHs was approximately 2871 ± 928 ng/m3 (on-duty), and 1622 ± 457 ng/m3 (all-day). The indoor PAHs level was 1257 ± 107 ng/m3. After 8000 Monte Carlo simulations, the cancer risk resulting from exposure to PAHs was found to be approximately 1.05 × 10-4. A multivariate analysis was applied to identify the potential sources, and the results showed that, in addition to vehicle exhaust, coal combustion and cooking fumes were also another two important contributors to personal PAH exposure. The diagnostic ratios of PAH compounds agree with the source apportionment results derived from principal component analysis. |
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Keywords: | polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure risk assessment traffic assistants source identification |
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