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ANNALS OF WORK EXPOSURES AND HEALTH
卷 62, 期 3, 页码 339-350出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/annweh/wxx111
关键词
elemental carbon; exposure assessment; organic carbon; particulate matter; total carbon
资金
- National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health [R21 0H010362]
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [P30ES007033, T32 ES015459]
We investigated the viability of particle bound 1-nitropyrene (1-NP) air concentration measurements as a surrogate of diesel exhaust (DE) exposure, as compared with industry-standard elemental carbon (EC) and total carbon (TC) measurements. Personal exposures are reported for 18 employees at a large underground metal mine during four different monitoring campaigns. Full-shift personal air exposure sampling was conducted using a Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) compliant diesel particulate matter (DPM) impactor cassette downstream of a GS-1 cyclone pre-selector. Each DPM filter element was analyzed for EC and organic carbon (OC) using NIOSH Method 5040. After EC and OC analysis, the remaining portion of each DPM filter was analyzed for 1-NP using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). We observed high correlations between the quantiles of 1-NP and EC exposures across 10 different work shift task groups (r = 0.87 to 0.96), and a linear relationship with a slope between 6.0 to 6.9 pg 1-NP per mu g EC. However, correlation between 1-NP and EC was weak (r = 0.34) for the 91 individual sample pairs due to low EC concentrations and possible heterogeneity of DE composition. While both 1-NP and EC differentiated between high and low exposure groups categorized by job location, measurements of 1-NP, but not EC further differentiated between specific job activities. Repeated measurements on individual subjects verified the relationship between 1-NP and EC and demonstrated substantial within-subject variability in exposure. The detection limit of TC air concentration ranged between 18 and 28 mu g m(-3) and was limited by OC contamination of the quartz filters in the MSHA compliant DPM samplers.
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