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AEROSOL AND AIR QUALITY RESEARCH
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 2907-2919Publisher
TAIWAN ASSOC AEROSOL RES-TAAR
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2015.01.0011
Keywords
Wildland fire; PAHs; Northern Thailand; PM2.5; Incremental lifetime cancer risk
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- National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) Research Center
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In Northern Thailand, wildland fire during cold period releases large amounts of smoke and fine particles into the atmosphere. The fine particles include several persistent organic compounds such as PAHs. In this study, PM2.5-bound PAH concentrations in the air of nine administrative provinces, namely Chiang-Mai, Chiang-Rai, Nan, Phayao, Mae Hong Son, Phrae, Lampang, Lamphun, Uttaradit (N Thailand) were determined during the wildland fire and non-wildland fire seasons. The monitoring strategy comprised two campaigns in each season. PM2.5 was collected using MiniVolTM portable air samplers (Airmetrics) with quartz fibre filters. Both PAHs and their B[a] P-Equivalent concentrations of other urban cities around the world were significantly higher than those of northern provinces for both seasons. The average cancer risks observed at nine administrative provinces were 8.525 x 10(-4) +/- 3.493 x 10(-3) and 2.558 x 10(-3) +/- 6.986 x 10(-3) for ingestion rate of 50 and 100 mg day(-1), respectively. The excess cancer risks of world cities for ingestion rate of 50 and 100 mg day-1 were much higher than those of Northern Thailand for 851 and 567 times in that order. Dust ingestion was exceedingly critical to non-dietary PAH exposure in comparison with PM2.5 inhalation. These results are in good agreement with those of previous studies, underlining the significance of indoor air quality on long-term adverse respiratory diseases in Asian cities.
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