Health risk assessment of air particulate pollutants (PM10 and PM2.5) in Tehran, A case study of Poonak
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Environment, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran.
2 Department of Environmental Science, Environmental Science Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22059/jne.2023.356444.2536
Abstract
Air pollution has harmful effects on the environment and human health and can cause chronic and acute diseases in different age groups. Several studies have evaluated the health risk of air pollutants to determine carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the health risk of PM10 and PM2.5 pollutants in Poonak area of Tehran in 2017. In this research, the data of air pollutants were obtained from the archive section of the Tehran air quality control website. The resulting data were analyzed by SPSS version 26 software. Then, the carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk for PM10 and PM2.5 was calculated from the guidelines of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The 98th percentile of 24-hour PM2.5 concentration was 52 μg/m3, which exceeded the EPA standard. Also, the 24-hour concentration of PM10 exceeded the recommended value of EPA on only one day a year and was equal to 230 μg/m3, which indicated that the 24-hour concentration of PM10 did not exceed the EPA standard in Poonak. The lowest concentration of PM2.5 particles in 2017 was carcinogenic for all age groups. Non-carcinogenic risk for PM2.5 varied from 0.2 to 17.8. Also, for PM10, it was from 0.12 to 11.1 in the lowest and highest pollutant concentration, respectively. The results of this study showed that air pollution by suspended particles in the Poonak region of Tehran is a very important and serious issue because in average and maximum concentrations it can cause cancer risk for children and adults.
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