SEASONAL VALUES OF THE GASEOUS CONCENTRATIONS OF AIR QUALITY RATINGS IN A RURAL AREA

• Authors: Tomasz Olszowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study presents the quantities of immission of the selected gas pollutions in the area of a compact development village. Within a range of a one-year research project (2012), the yearly average, seasonal and daily profiles of concentrations of the gas compounds in the air had been determined (SO2, NO2 and BTEX). Measures were executed in the area of a rural development and in the areas adjacent to the administrative village periphery. In the seasonal researches a passive method and a GC analytic technique had been used along with an automatic analyser to determine daily NO2 concentrations. It was found out that an air quality in a rural area is determined by the influence of the local sources (unstructured emission from domestic and farm buildings as well as a communication emission) and a toxicants’ quantity, enriching environment, depends on cyclic weather states, characteristic for a moderate climate. It has been proved that the maximum concentrations of the tested compounds occur in the center of a village development. It has been proved that it was winter emission that influenced the value of a yearly average concentration of pollutions in the air in a most significant manner. Theory concerning parity of a natural and anthropogenic sources affecting the aerosanitary parameters of rural compact settlement area, has been questioned. It has been proposed to introduce an obligatory, temporary indicator monitoring of a compound, which might prove be a nitrogen dioxide

PL

W pracy przedstawiono wielkości imisji wybranych zanieczyszczeń gazowych występujących na obszarze wsi o zwartej zabudowie. W ramach jednorocznego projektu badawczego (2012) określono średnioroczne, sezonowe i dobowe profile stężeń związków gazowych w powietrzu (SO2, NO2 i BTEX). Pomiary realizowano na obszarze zabudowy wiejskiej oraz na terenach sąsiadujących z administracyjną granicą wsi. W badaniach sezonowych wykorzystano metodę pasywną i technikę analityczną GC oraz dodatkowo w przypadku ustalania dobowych stężeń NO2 analizator automatyczny. Stwierdzono, że jakość powietrza na obszarze wiejskim determinowana jest oddziaływaniem źródeł lokalnych (głównie niezorganizowaną emisją z zabudowań mieszkalnych i gospodarczych oraz emisją komunikacyjną), a ilość toksykantów wzbogacających środowisko zależy od cyklicznych okresów stanów pogodowych, charakterystycznych dla klimatu umiarkowanego. Wykazano, że maksymalne stężenia badanych związków występują w centrum zabudowy wsi. Udowodniono, że na wartość średniorocznego stężenia zanieczyszczeń w powietrzu najistotniejszy wpływ ma emisja zimowa. Podważono twierdzenie o parytecie udziału źródeł naturalnych i antropogennych wpływających na parametry areosanitarne obszarów wiejskich o zwartej zabudowie. Zaproponowano wprowadzenie na obszarach wiejskich obligatoryjnego, okresowego monitoringu wskaźnikowego związku, jakim może być ditlenek azotu.

Keywords

EN

immission; NO2; SO2; BTEX; passive samplers; rural area

PL

imisja; NO2; SO2; BTEX; mierniki pasywne; obszar wiejski

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 719-732

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2013

online

22 - 01 - 2014

Contributors

author

Tomasz Olszowski

• Department of Thermal Engineering and Industrial Facilities, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Opole University of Technology, ul. S. Mikołajczyka 5, 45-271 Opole, Poland, phone [phone], fax [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/eces-2013-0050