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Atmospheric concentrations, distributions and air-soil exchange tendencies of PAHs and PCBs in a heavily industrialized area in Kocaeli, Turkey

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dc.creator Keles, Melek
dc.creator ÖZTÜRK, FATMA
dc.creator ÇETİN, BANU
dc.creator DOĞAN, CEVDET
dc.creator Celik, Isil
dc.creator YURDAKUL, Sema
dc.date 2017-08-31T21:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-06T11:24:59Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-06T11:24:59Z
dc.identifier d55abd4a-8012-433a-8eb6-a8704407070c
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.103
dc.identifier https://avesis.sdu.edu.tr/publication/details/d55abd4a-8012-433a-8eb6-a8704407070c/oai
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/73091
dc.description Dilovasi is one of the heavily industrialized areas in Turkey with serious environmental problems. In this study, the atmospheric concentration of PAHs and PCBs were measured for a whole year at 23 sites. The average ambient air Sigma(15)PAH and Sigma 41PCB concentrations were found as 285 +/- 431 ng m(-3) and 4152 +/- 6072 pg m(-3), respectively. PAH concentrations increased with decreasing temperature especially in urban areas, indicating the impact of residential heating. However, PCB concentrations mostly increased with temperature probably due to enhanced volatilization from their sources. The gradient obtained for PCBs, rural < suburban < urban < industrial/urban, is more clear than those obtained for PAHs. The average Sigma(15)PAH and Sigma 41PCB soil concentrations were found as 992 +/- 1323 and 18.8 +/- 32.0 mu g kg(-1), respectively. PCB soil concentrations did not show significant temporal variations while PAH concentrations were variable especially for urban areas. The volatilization tendencies of low and medium molecular weight PAHs from soil to air were higher in industrial-urban areas than rural sites, showing that soil was a secondary source for PAHs. Fugacity ratios of PCBs were mostly < 1.0 for the whole sampling period. Although the source/sink tendency of soil for some PCBs depends on their volatility, considering the whole data, PCBs were generally deposited to soil. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.language eng
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title Atmospheric concentrations, distributions and air-soil exchange tendencies of PAHs and PCBs in a heavily industrialized area in Kocaeli, Turkey
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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