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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2009 May 13;76(8):1075–1081. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.04.031

Table 3.

Changes of some selected PAH source apportionment ratios (2.1 / 4.9 / 12.7 mg/filter soot) extrapolated to extended times.

0h 24h 100h 500h Interpetation
Ind/(Ind+BgP) 0.27 / 0.34 / 0.26 0.29 / 0.34 / 0.26 0.29 / 0.37 / 0.29 0.38/ 0.46 / 0.41 0.35-0.7 diesel emissionsa
Flt/(Flt+Pyr) 0.29 / 0.26 / 0.30 0.31 / 0.27 / 0.31 0.33 / 0.32 / 0.34 0.53 / 0.57 / 0.51 >0.5 diesel, <0.5 gasolinea
BaP/(BaP+Chry) 0.98 / 0.97 / 0.94 0.97 / 0.97 / 0.93 0.98 / 0.95 / 0.92 0.13 / 0.69 / 0.81 0.49 diesel, 0.73 gasolinea
BaP/BgP 0.44 / 0.38 / 0.45 0.33 / 0.33 / 0.44 0.13 / 0.23 / 0.42 «0.01 / 0.03 / 0.30 >0.6 traffic emissiona
Ind/BgP 0.37 / 0.52 / 0.34 0.38 / 0.52 / 0.36 0.41 / 0.59 / 0.40 0.62 / 0.85 / 0.70 ∼0.4 gasoline, ∼1 diesela
Ant/178 0.18 / 0.16 / 0.16 0.21 / 0.23 / 0.14 0.28 / 0.43 / 0.06 0.65 / 0.94 / «0.01 >0.1 combustion, <0.1 petroleumb
BaA/228* 0.66 / 0.68 / 0.77 0.12 / 0.60 / 0.73 «0.01 / 0.41 / 0.69 «0.01 / 0.01/ 0.31 <0.2 petroleum, >0.35 combustionb
Phe/Ant 4.48 / 5.40 / 5.34 3.82 / 3.44 / 6.07 2.59 / 1.35 / 15.1 0.54 / 0.06 / 291 <10 pyrogenic, >15 petrogenicc
Flt/Pyr 0.41 / 0.34 / 0.43 0.44 / 0.37 / 0.45 0.50 / 0.46 / 0.52 1.15 / 1.30 / 1.02 ∼1 pyrogenic, «1 petrogenicc
a

Ravindra et al. (2006) and therein

b

Budzinski et al. (1997).

*

Triphenylene was not monitored in this study and BaA/228 was calculated based on data from BaA and Chry.