Title: Screening technique to estimate high benzo[a]pyrene concentrations near roads

Authors: Akira Kondo; Toshiro Hazama; Hikari Shimadera; Akikazu Kaga; Yoshio Inoue

Addresses: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan ' Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan ' Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan ' Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan ' Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Abstract: The emission factors of benzo[a]pyrene for gasoline cars and for diesel cars were measured by directly collecting the exhaust gas using a portable sampling equipment and became 660 ng km-1 and 1700 ng km-1, respectively. The regression equations to easily evaluate the concentrations at the roadsides and at the crossroads were introduced as the functions of building height, road width, and wind speed from CFD simulations. The estimated concentrations showed that there were almost locations with the high concentrations exceeding the screening level to the probability of 10-5 that a person has a cancer during his life.

Keywords: benzo[a]pyrene; vehicle emissions; gasoline cars; diesel cars; petrol cars; screening level; regression equation; CFD; computational fluid dynamics; exhaust gas; air quality; air pollution; pollutant concentrations; building height; road width; wind speed; simulation; dispersion modelling; cancer prediction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2012.049659

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2012 Vol.48 No.1/2/3/4, pp.126 - 135

Published online: 19 Nov 2014 *

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