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Journal of Environmental Protection, 2011, 2, 11-20 11 doi:10.4236/jep.2011.21002 Published Online March 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jep) BTEX in Ambient Air of a Metropolitan City 1 2 1 D. Majumdar (née Som) , A. K. Mukherjeea , S. Sen 1Department of Chemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India; 2Regional Occupational Health Centre (Eastern), Kolkata, India. Email: dipanjalisom@ Received September 29th, 2010; revised November 11th, 2010; accepted December 20th, 2010. ABSTRACT The environmental fate, global warming effect and human health risk from mono aromatic VOCs are of major concerns among many consequences of their anthropogenic emission. In more than a yearlong study (November 2003 to Febru- ary 2005) of the city air in Kolkata, India at different seasons in three different sites, the seasonal mean benzene and 3 3 toluene concentrations varied between 13.8 - 72.0 μg/m and 21.0 - 83.2 μg/m respectively along all the sites. The en- vironmental distribution and load of BTEX (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene and isomers of Xylene) in different envi- ronmental compartment was estimated using a multimedia mass balance model, TaPL3. The total environmental load of 4 kg. Contribution of Kolkata metropolitan city towards global warming due BTEX together was estimated to be 9.7 × 10 5 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year which is to environmental emission of BTEX has been estimated as 1.9 × 10 about 1.1% of yearly direct CO2 emission the city. The consequence of BTEX emission towards human health has been estimated in terms of non-cancer and cancer risk i