Analysis of PAHs Associated with Particulate Matter PM2.5 in Two Places at the City of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Atmosphere

Hugo Saldarriaga-Nore༚¹  Rebecca López-Márquez¹  Mario Murillo-Tovar¹  Leonel Hernández-Mena³  Efrén Ospina-Nore༚²  Enrique Sánchez-Salinas⁴  Stefan Waliszewski⁵  Silvia Montiel-Palma¹ 

[1] Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, IICBA, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca 62209, Mexico; E-Mails:;Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Departamento de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 111321, Colombia; E-Mail:;Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco, Guadalajara 44270, Mexico; E-Mail:;Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca 62209, Mexico; E-Mail:;Instituto de Medicina Forense, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz 91980, Mexico; E-Mail:

关键词: PAHs;    PM_2.5;    Cuernavaca;    diagnostic ratios;   

DOI  :  10.3390/atmos6091259

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This study was carried out between January and February 2013, at two sites in the city of Cuernavaca, México, using low-volume equipment. Fifteen Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), were identified by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The total average concentration observed for PAHs was 24.0 ng·m⁻³, with the high molecular weight compounds being the most abundant. The estimated equivalent concentration for Benzo (a) P (BaPE) was 4.05 ng·m⁻³. Diagnostic ratios together with the principal components analysis (PCA) allowed for establishing coal burning and vehicle emissions as being the main sources of these compounds in the area. The PAHs used to calculate this index account for 51% of the 15 PAHs identified, which probably involves a risk to the exposed population.

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