High spatial-resolved source-specific exposure and risk in the city scale: Influence of spatial interrelationship between PM2.5 sources and population on exposure

Sci Total Environ. 2024 May 20:926:171873. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171873. Epub 2024 Mar 21.

Abstract

Research on High Spatial-Resolved Source-Specific Exposure and Risk (HSRSSER) was conducted based on multiple-year, multiple-site synchronous measurement of PM2.5-bound (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter<2.5 μm) toxic components in a Chinese megacity. The developed HSRSSER model combined the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) and Land Use Regression (LUR) to predict high spatial-resolved source contributions, and estimated the source-specific exposure and risk by personal activity time- and population-weighting. A total of 287 PM2.5 samples were collected at ten sites in 2018-2020, and toxic species including heavy metals (HMs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organophosphate esters (OPEs) were analyzed. The percentage non-cancer risk were in the order of traffic emission (48 %) > industrial emission (22 %) > coal combustion (12 %) > waste incineration (11 %) > resuspend dust (7 %) > OPE-related products (0 %) ≈ secondary particles (0 %). Similar orders were observed in cancer risk. For traffic emission, due to its higher source contributions and large population in central area, non-cancer and cancer risk fraction increased from 23 % to 48 % and 20 % to 46 % after exposure estimation; while for industrial emission, higher source contributions but small population in suburb area decreased the percentage non-cancer and cancer risk from 38 % to 22 % and 39 % to 24 %, respectively.

Keywords: Health risk assessment; Integrated exposure estimation; PM(2.5) sources; PM(2.5)-bound toxic components; Source-specific Land Use Regression.

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollutants* / analysis
  • China / epidemiology
  • Cities
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Particulate Matter / analysis
  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons* / analysis
  • Vehicle Emissions / analysis

Substances

  • Air Pollutants
  • Vehicle Emissions
  • Particulate Matter
  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons