Correlation between airborne particle concentrations in seven industrial plants and estimated respiratory tract deposition by number,mass and elemental composition |
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Authors: | Karine Elihn Peter Berg Göran Lidén |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Applied Environmental Science, Atmospheric Science Unit, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;2. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, 701 85 Örebro, Sweden |
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Abstract: | The number and mass distribution of airborne particles were recorded in several industrial plants. From the data obtained, particle deposition was estimated in three regions of the respiratory tract using the ICRP grand average deposition model based on Hinds' (1999) parameterization. The median diameter was 30–70 nm (number distributions), and >4 μm (mass distributions) near most work activities, resulting in linear relationships between the deposited number/mass concentrations and the number/mass concentrations in the air. Welding and laser cutting produced particles in the 200–500-nm range; total deposition was small, not in accordance with the linear relationship observed for the other work activities. The elemental content varied between particle sizes in some workplaces, causing different elements to deposit in different respiratory regions. Iron was the most abundant element in the particles in many of the workplaces; in an iron foundry, however, Fe was most abundant only in the micron-sized particles whereas the nanoparticles mainly comprised Pb and Sb. |
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