Oxidative potential of particulate matter at a German motorway

Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts
Bryan HellackThomas Kuhlbusch

Abstract

Ambient particulate matter (PM10) was sampled alongside a motorway in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, during a one-year period. In sum, 120 PM10 samples on quartz fibre filters, 60 samples at each side of the motorway, were taken during clear cross-wind direction situations, i.e. upwind (local background situation) and downwind (traffic influenced). To quantify the traffic-related oxidative potential (OP), or more precisely the hydroxyl radical (OH˙) generation potency, these samples were analysed to study their hydrogen peroxide dependent oxidant generation by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy using the spin trap 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide. In addition the PM10 mass, the chemical composition and the NOx concentrations were determined. For PM10 mass and traffic tracers like Sb, Ba, elemental and organic carbon as well as for NOx, an additional contribution to the background concentration caused by the traffic was observed (factor: 1.3-6.0). The downwind measurements showed in 72% of cases higher OH˙ generation potencies with an average factor of 1.4. Significant correlations to OH˙ were detected for Fe (r > 0.58) and Cu (r > 0.57) for the upwind and overall (upwind + downwind, r > 0.44) dataset. At the d...Continue Reading

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