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Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from urban to rural soils: a case study in Dalian, China.
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The results suggest that FA with nonnegative constraints is a promising tool for source apportionment of PAHs in soils and shows reasonable explanations for PAH contributions in soils from different sites.About:
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils of Beijing: status, sources, distribution and potential risk.
TL;DR: The source, concentration, spatial distribution and health risk of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils of Beijing suggested that the primary sources of PAHs were vehicle exhaust and coal combustion and the secondary source was the atmospheric deposition of long-range transported PAH
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Heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: pollution and ecological risk assessment in street dust of Tehran.
TL;DR: Investigation of street dust samples from four major streets in eastern and southern Tehran revealed that traffic and related activities, petrogenic and pyrogenic sources are likely to be the main anthropogenic sources of heavy metals and PAHs in Tehran dust.
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Source apportionment of PAH in Hamilton Harbour suspended sediments: comparison of two factor analysis methods.
TL;DR: This work constitutes one of the few examples of the application of PMF to the source apportionment of sediments; the addition of sulfur heterocycles to the analyte list greatly aided in the source identification process.
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Levels, composition profiles and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soil of Shanghai, China
Yufeng Jiang,Xue-Tong Wang,Fei Wang,Ying Jia,Minghong Wu,Guoying Sheng,Guoying Sheng,Jiamo Fu,Jiamo Fu +8 more
TL;DR: A principal component analysis and PAHs isomeric ratios indicate thatPAHs in Shanghai urban soil mainly originated from combustion, and the toxic assessment suggested that soil PAhs exposure is medium carcinogenic at present level.
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Organic contamination and remediation in the agricultural soils of China : a critical review
TL;DR: A critical review of published scientific data on soil pollution across China highlighted several future research directions including combined pollution, interfacial interactions, food safety, bioavailability, ecological effects, and integrated remediation methods for combined organic pollution in soil.
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PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition
Mark B. Yunker,Robie W. Macdonald,Roxanne Vingarzan,Reginald H. Mitchell,Darcy Goyette,Stephanie Sylvestre +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, parent and alkyl PAHs were quantified in suspended particulates and sediments (345 samples) from the Fraser River system, British Columbia, Canada, and the best potential to distinguish natural and anthropogenic sources is exhibited by ratios of the principal mass 178, 202, 228 and 276 parent PAH, 1,7/2,6+1,7-DMP (dimethylphenanthrene), the phenanthrene/anthracene and fluoranthene/pyrene alkyal PAH series and several less commonly applied PA
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Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in the United Kingdom environment: a preliminary source inventory and budget.
Simon R. Wild,Kevin C. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: There is good evidence to suggest that air concentrations and fluxes to the UK surface are now lower than at any time throughout this century, but the UK sigmaPAH burden is still increasing at the present time, principally through retention by soils.
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A Review on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Emissions from Energy Generation
TL;DR: In this article, the state of the art on their sampling and analytical procedures are commented, and the influence of the fuel, fossil and nonfossil fuels, the combustor type and the combustion variables are analyzed concerning polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) formation and emission in solid/gaseous phase.
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SYNOPSIS Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Soil — a Review
TL;DR: A review of existing studies on tropical and southern hemispheric regions indicates that the PAH concentrations are relatively lower than in temperate soils for most compounds except for naphthalene, phenanthrene, and perylene suggesting the presence of unidentified PAH sources as discussed by the authors.
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Source apportionment of urban particulate aliphatic and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using multivariate methods
Ilias G. Kavouras,Petros Koutrakis,Manolis Tsapakis,Evaggelia Lagoudaki,Euripides G. Stephanou,Dietrich von Baer,Pedro Oyola +6 more
TL;DR: The reconstructed concentrations of particle phase aliphatic and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons were in good agreement with those measured in Santiago de Chile.