Characterization of Odorous Compounds (VOC and Carbonyl Compounds) in the Ambient Air of Yeosu and Gwangyang, Large Industrial Areas of South Korea

Table 10

Comparison of the concentrations of carbonyl compounds reported in present method with other cities in the world.

S. No.	City/country	Sampling period	Site characteristics		FRML	ACTL	PPNL	BTL	iVAL	nVAL	MEK		Reference
1	Kolkata/India	Site 1, summer	Mixed (res., traffic, and ind.)	—	18.60	9.09	1.50	1.46	—	—	—	2.0	[29]
		Winter			13.76	6.76	1.02	0.75	—	—	—	2.0
		Site 2, summer	Mixed (res., traffic, and ind.)		11.02	4.59	0.73	1.30	—	—	—	2.4
		Winter			9.92	4.98	0.95	0.74	—	—	—	2.0
2	Guangzhou/China	July–Sep, 2003	Residential	5	10.88	5.83	1.11	0.66	0.23	0.25		1.9	[30]
			Industrial	5	11.07	3.96	0.55	0.29	0.08	0.62		2.8
3	Guangzhou/China	17–19, Nov–2005; (clear days)	Residential and traffic site	12	4.74	3.95	0.35	0.78	0.12	0.16		1.2	[31]
		30 Nov–2, Dec 2005; (hazy days)	Residential and traffic	12	11.49	8.91	1.16	0.81	0.18	2.74		1.3
4	Ansan, Shi Hung/Republic of Korea	Aug, 2004–Sep, 2005	Industrial	—	19.30	19.50	19.00	13.00	0.93	0.82		1.0	[8]
5	Gumi/Republic of Korea	Dec, 2003–Nov, 2004	Industrial site 1	172	3.40	7.35	0.80				2.40	0.5	[6]
		2004	Industrial site 2	78	3.87	2.52	1.01				4.81	1.5
		2004	Industrial, site 3	77	3.86	4.22	1.04				3.32	0.9
6	Mexico city/Mexico	Mar,1998–Feb, 1999	Mixed (res., com., and ind.)	35	4.33	2.31	0.53	0.29	0.44	0.16		1.9	[32]
7	Rome/Italy	2006	Urban	—	2.16	1.26	0.41	1.61	0.06	0.13		1.7	[33]
8	Kurkimaki/Finland	—	Residential	—	0.37	0.36	0.05	0.03				1.0	[34]
9	Roverdo	Nov-Dec, 2005	Rural	—	—	0.38	0.10	0.05			0.08	—	[35]
	Zurich/Switzerland	Nov-Dec, 2005	Urban res.	—	—	0.86	0.12	0.04			0.03	—
10	Santiago/Chile	Nov-Dec, 2003	Downtown	40	3.90	3.00	0.46	3.30	0.11			1.3	[36]
11	Yeosu industrial/Korea	May, Aug, Oct 2008, Jan 2009	Oil refinery, petrochemical industries	80	7.40	2.75	0.29	0.06	0.03	0.11	2.57	2.7	This study
	Yeosu residential/Korea		Residential	78	8.06	3.43	0.35	0.56	0.03	0.05	2.05	2.3
	Gwangyang industrial/Korea		Steel industries	79	5.99	1.97	0.14	0.02	0.02	0.07	2.74	3.0
	Gwangyang residential/Korea		Residential	80	7.15	2.23	0.17	0.01	0.01	0.03	2.29	3.2
	Suncheon comparison/Korea		Residential	80	6.52	2.54	0.21	0.10	0.03	0.05	2.05	2.6