Daniela Varrica

TL;DR: In this paper, eight samples of road dust were collected from three different localities (industrial, urban, peripheral) of the town of Gela (Italy) to characterize their chemical composition and assess (a) the influence of the petrochemical plant and the urban traffic on the trace element content in different grain-size fractions of street dust and (b) the solid phase speciation of the analysed metal using sequential extraction.

TL;DR: How the oil refinery and traffic-related air pollution affect the chemical composition of airborne particulate matter over the town of Gela is discussed, using pine needles and urban road dust as the means of survey.

TL;DR: Inorganic matter from roadway dust collected in the urban area of Palermo, Italy, was analyzed to identify the chemical elements introduced into the environment as a result of human activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the speciation of Sb in samples of brake linings, brake pad wear residues, road dust, and atmospheric particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5 were obtained combining several well established and advanced characterization techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and synchrotron radiation X-ray absorption spectroscopy (SR-XAS).

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive report on mass concentrations of particulate matter of various sizes, inorganic and organic gas concentrations monitored at three sampling sites in the city of Palermo (Sicily, Italy).