Journal
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 388, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121766
Keywords
Source apportionment; Human health risk; Agricultural soil heavy metals; Positive matrix factorization; Spatial distribution
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41807344]
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science
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Apportion soil heavy metal sources across large-scale regions is a challenging task. The present study developed a modified receptor model to estimate the contributions of various sources to soil heavy metals and the associated health risks at a large scale. A positive matrix factorization model based on a partition computing approach was employed; the entire study area was divided into several zones for the source apportionment and then calculated together, termed partition computing-PMF (PC-PMF). The agricultural soil in Tianjin, China, was chosen for the case study. The PC-PMF results showed that irrigation, atmospheric deposition and sludge application were the main anthropogenic sources, with contributions of 26.60 %, 19.56 % and 2.86 %, respectively. We subsequently combined PC-PMF with a human health risk assessment model (HHRA) to obtain the human health risk of every source category. The natural background was regarded as a major factor influencing human health in the study area, with contributions of 38.03 % for the noncarcinogenic risk and 28.68 % for the carcinogenic risk. The results indicated that PC-PMF performed better at the source apportionment of soil heavy metals than PMF. This study provides a good example of how the spatial variability can be utilized to reduce the uncertainty in source apportionment.
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