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- Title
Interrelationship of Pyrogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Contamination in Different Environmental Media.
- Authors
Seung-Kyu Kim; Dong Soo Lee; Won Joon Shim; Un Hyuk Yim; Yong-Seung Shin
- Abstract
Interrelationships between pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were assessed in air, soil, water, sediment, and tree leaves by using multi-media monitoring data. Concurrent concentration measurements were taken bimonthly for a year for the multi-media at urban and suburban sites. PAH level correlations between air and other media were observed at the urban site but were less clear at the suburban site. Considering a closer PAHs distribution/fate characteristics to soil than suspended solids, contamination in sediment seemed to be governed primarily by that in soil. The partitioning of PAHs in waters could be better accounted for by sorption onto black carbon and dissolved organic carbon.
- Subjects
POLYCYCLIC aromatic hydrocarbons; PYROGENS; INDUSTRIAL contamination; LEAVES; WATER; SOILS; AIR; ELECTRIC light carbons; SOIL absorption &; adsorption
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2009, Vol 9, Issue 12, p9582
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s91209582