Research Article
Source Apportionment of Particle Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at an Industrial Location in Agra, India
Table 4
Proposed Toxic Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for individual PAHs and calculated TEF-adjusted concentrations of measured samples.
| PAH | TEF (data from [69]) | TEF-adjusted concentrations in ng m−3 (Present Study) |
| Naphthalene (NaP) | 0.001 | 0.0009 | Acenaphthylene (Acy) | 0.001 | 0.0017 | Acenaphthene (Ace) | 0.001 | 0.0018 | Fluorene (Flu) | 0.001 | 0.0010 | Phenanthrene (Phen) | 0.001 | 0.0009 | Anthracene (Anth) | 0.01 | 0.0223 | Fluoranthene (Fla) | 0.001 | 0.0002 | Pyrene (Pyr) | 0.001 | 0.0031 | Benzo(a)anthracene (BaA) | 0.1 | 0.616 | Chrysene (Chr) | 0.01 | 0.079 | Benzo(b)fluoranthene Benzo(k)fluoranthene (BbF + BkF) | 0.1 | 1.064 | Benzo(k)fluoranthene (BkF) | 0.1 | 0.984 | Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) | 1 | 12.27 | Indeno(123-cd)pyrene (IP) | 0.1 | 1.479 | Dibenz(ah)anthracene (DbA) | 1 | 0.023 | B(ghi)perylene (BghiP) | 0.01 | 11.13 |
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