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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Phase distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their oxygenated and nitrated derivatives in the ambient air of a Brazilian urban area
Autor(es): Rosimeire Resende dos Santos
Zenilda de Lourdes Cardeal
Helvécio Costa Menezes
Resumo: Air quality in large cities has worsened in recent years as a consequence people’s health is directly affected. Among the toxic compounds released to environmental air are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitrated PAHs (nitro-PAHs), and oxygenated PAHs (oxy-PAHs). Performant methods to analyze these compounds is necessary to enable adequate monitoring of air quality. Thus, this manuscript presents the development of a highly sensitive method to analyze PAHs, nitro-PAHs, and oxy-PAHs collected from ambient air (PM2.5) and the gas phase for a period of one year in the urban area of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. PAHs and their derivatives were extracted by cold fiber solid phase microextraction (CF-SPME) and analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The proposed method allows simultaneous analysis of 16 PAHs, nitro-PAHs and oxy-PAHs, presenting very good limits of detection and quantification, as well as appropriate precision and recovery. The results obtained for the period of one year allowed different studies. The compounds collected simultaneously from gas and particulate phase showed that total concentration of 16 PAHs were higher in the gas phase than in the particulate. On the other hand, nitro-PAHs and oxy-PAHs presented similar concentration in gas and particulate phases. The potential carcinogenicity of PAHs relative to benzo[a]pyrene showed benzo[a]pyrene equivalents of 0.49 ng m−³. The estimated risk of lifetime lung cancer was 5 × 10−5. Principal component analysis and diagnostic ratio was applied for source distribution indicating that burning of gasoline, diesel and biomass accounted for the PAHs profile in ambient air samples.
Assunto: Química analítica
Hidrocarbonetos policiclicos aromaticos
Cromatografia de gás
Espectrometria de massa
Ar Qualidade
Ar Análise
Ar Poluição
Belo Horizonte (MG)
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Instituição: UFMG
Departamento: ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA
Tipo de Acesso: Acesso Restrito
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126223
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/48865
Data do documento: 2020
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653520304161
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Chemosphere
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