Personal Exposure to Fine Particulates and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Office Environment in Xi＇an, China.pdfVIP

FrontierofEnvironmentalScience December2013，Volume2，Issue4，PE33—45 PersonalExposuretoFineParticulatesand PolycyclicAromaticHydrocarbonsinanOffice EnvironmentinXi’an，China HongmeiXul， JunjiCaoI’3t，MeilingGao4,KinFaiHoj．XinyiNiu1．TeresaL．Coonsa,StevenSaiHang HoI，，GehuiWang1ZhuziZhaol’2 ． , 1．KeyLabofAerosolScienceTechnology，SKLLQG，InstituteofEarthEnvironment，ChineseAcademyofSciences，Xi’an， 710075，China 2．UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences，Beijing，100049，China 3．InstituteofGlobalEnvironmentalChange，Xi’anJiaotongUniversity，Xi’an，710054，China 4．UniversityofCalifornia，Berkeley，USA 5．SchoolofPublicHealthandPrimaryCare，TheChineseUniversityofHongKong，HongKong，China 6．Washing【tonStateUniversity，USA 7．HongKongPremium ServicesandResearchLaboratory，LaiChiKok，Kowloon，HongKong，China tEmail：cao@loess．1lqg．ac．cn Abstract ThisstudywasconductedtoevaluatetherelationshipsbetweenPM2 ． 5andassociatedpolycyclicaromatichydrocarbons(PAHs)in indoorandoutdoorenvironments，identify likelyPAH sources，determinepersonalexposures，and estimatethetoxicity and carcinogenicrisks．MonitoringwasconductedinXi’an，Chinaonconsecutiveweekdays(July6to24，2009)from8amto8pm． TheaveragePM25personalexposuremassconcentration(66．4ggm )waslowerthanthatoutdoors(80．5lagm )，buttheaverage totalPAHconcentrationinthepersonalexposuresamples(179．8ngm。)washigherthanoutdoors(114．9ngm )．Inaddition，two distinctrelationshipsbetweenpersonalexposureandoutdoorPAH concentrationswereobserved；thesecouldbeexplainedbythe subjects’time-activitypatterns．PAllstoxiciyt riskswereestimatedfrom theBaP—equivalentconcentrationsinthepersonal samplesanddetemr inedtobe45．8ngm—onaverage．Applyingtheunit