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.

PAHTEF (data from [69])TEF-adjusted concentrations in ng m−3 (Present Study)

Naphthalene (NaP)0.0010.0009
Acenaphthylene (Acy)0.0010.0017
Acenaphthene (Ace)0.0010.0018
Fluorene (Flu)0.0010.0010
Phenanthrene (Phen)0.0010.0009
Anthracene (Anth)0.010.0223
Fluoranthene (Fla)0.0010.0002
Pyrene (Pyr)0.0010.0031
Benzo(a)anthracene (BaA)0.10.616
Chrysene (Chr)0.010.079
Benzo(b)fluoranthene Benzo(k)fluoranthene (BbF + BkF)0.11.064
Benzo(k)fluoranthene (BkF)0.10.984
Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP)112.27
Indeno(123-cd)pyrene (IP)0.11.479
Dibenz(ah)anthracene (DbA)10.023
B(ghi)perylene (BghiP)0.0111.13