Mobile measurements of particulate matter in a car cabin : local variations, contrasting data from mobile versus stationary measurements and the effect of an opened versus a closed window
- Air pollution of particulate matter (PM) from traffic emissions has a significant impact on human health. Risk assessments for different traffic participants are often performed on the basis of data from local air quality monitoring stations. Numerous studies demonstrated the limitation of this approach. To assess the risk of PM exposure to a car driver more realistically, we measure the exposure to PM in a car cabin with a mobile aerosol spectrometer in Frankfurt am Main under different settings (local variations, opened versus a closed window) and compare it with data from stationary measurement. A video camera monitored the surroundings for potential PM source detection. In-cabin concentrations peaked at 508 µg m−3 for PM10, 133.9 µg m−3 for PM2.5, and 401.3 µg m−3 for coarse particles, and strongly depended on PM size and PM concentration in ambient air. The concentration of smaller particles showed low fluctuations, but the concentration of coarse particles showed high fluctuations with maximum values on busy roads. Several of these concentration peaks were assigned to the corresponding sources with characteristic particle size distribution profiles. The closure of the car window reduced the exposure to PM, and in particular to coarse particles. The mobile measured PM values differed significantly from stationary PM measures, although good correlations were computed for finer particles. Mobile rather than stationary measurements are essential to assess the risk of PM exposure for car passengers.
Author: | Janis DrögeORCiDGND, Ruth MüllerORCiD, Cristian Scutaru, Markus BraunORCiD, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-485674 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122642 |
ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
ISSN: | 1661-7827 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30486237 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of environmental research and public health |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/11/26 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/12/27 |
Tag: | in-cabin exposure; mobile air quality study; particle size distribution; particulate matter; traffic emissions; ventilation modes |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 12, Art. 2642 |
Page Number: | 20 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 20 |
Note: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0). |
HeBIS-PPN: | 446259659 |
Institutes: | Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie / Biochemie und Chemie |
Medizin / Medizin | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Medizin |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |