PAH Concentrations Inside a Wood Processing Plant and the Indoor Effects of Outdoor Industrial Emissions

作者：Rogula Kopiec Patrycja^*; Rogula Kozlowska Wioletta; Kozielska Barbara; Sowka Izabela

来源：Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2015, 24(4): 1867-1873.

DOI：10.15244/pjoes/37889

• sawmill
• particulate matter
• respirable dust
• health hazard
• persistent organic pollutants

Our study was aimed at assessing the effects of indoor and outdoor emission sources on indoor and outdoor concentrations of ambient particulate matter (PM) and PM-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a small sawmill in Silesia, Poland. The concentrations of total suspended particles (TSP), of their respirable fraction (PM4), and of 16 PM4(-) and TSP-bound PAHs were measured. The indoor PM emission sources (i.e. the saw and other tools for wood processing) did not cause a significant hazard to the sawmill workers. Nonetheless, the concentrations of the 16 PAH mixtures within the sawmill were high, especially indoors. Such high indoor PM-bound PAH concentrations were due to sawdust-adsorbing PAHs coming from industrial PAH sources beyond the sawmill (a cokery).

• 出版日期2015