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| DOI | 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117376 |
| Microenvironmental modelling of personal fine particulate matter exposure in Accra; Ghana | |
| Malley C.S.; Ashmore M.R.; Kuylenstierna J.C.I.; McGrath J.A.; Byrne M.A.; Dimitroulopoulou C.; Benefoh D. | |
| 发表日期 | 2020 |
| ISSN | 13522310 |
| 卷号 | 225 |
| 英文摘要 | The health burden from exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is disproportionately concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. To evaluate strategies to reduce PM2.5 exposure, the contribution of different sources, both indoor and outdoor, to overall personal PM2.5 exposure needs to be identified. Despite this, exposure to PM2.5 from indoor and outdoor origin are most often considered separately. This work presents the first application of a microenvironmental modelling approach in a sub-Saharan African city (Accra, Ghana) to estimate personal PM2.5 exposures to population groups disaggregated by gender and age and identify the key factors determining these exposures. Time-activity profiles for each population group were combined with PM2.5 concentrations estimated for three home microenvironments using a dynamic microenvironmental model, INDAIR, and for work, school and transport microenvironments using a steady-state model to estimate personal PM2.5 exposures. In Accra, cooking using charcoal, compared to liquified petroleum gas (LPG), was estimated to result in substantially higher home PM2.5 concentrations, and higher personal PM2.5 exposure for the female adult and child population groups, compared with the male population groups. In households cooking using charcoal, more than 60% of total personal PM2.5 exposure was estimated to be due to residential cooking for the child and female population groups, which reduces to less than 10% when LPG was used for cooking, with the remaining contribution from PM2.5 of outdoor origin. The key parameters to which personal PM2.5 exposure estimates are sensitive are the air exchange rate between indoor and outdoors, the kitchen volume, and charcoal emission rates. This study therefore informs on the additional data collection and measurements that could substantially enhance the parameterisation of micro-environmental models for application in low- and middle-income countries where a limited number of studies have been conducted, and improve their utility in assessing strategies to reduce personal air pollution exposure of different population groups. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd |
| 英文关键词 | Accra; Indoor air pollution; Microenvironmental modelling; Outdoor air pollution; Particulate matter; Personal exposure |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | Charcoal; Indoor air pollution; Liquefied petroleum gas; Parameter estimation; Population statistics; Accra; Air pollution exposures; Fine particulate matter; Fine particulate matter (PM2.5); Low and middle income countries; Outdoor air pollution; Particulate Matter; Personal exposures; Particles (particulate matter); charcoal; petroleum derivative; atmospheric pollution; child health; emission; modeling; particulate matter; petroleum; pollution exposure; public health; adult; Africa south of the Sahara; air quality; Article; child; cooking; environmental exposure; female; Ghana; household; human; low income country; male; microenvironment; middle income country; particulate matter; priority journal; school; sex difference; steady state; work; Accra; Ghana; Greater Accra |
| 来源期刊 | Atmospheric Environment
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/145129 |
| 作者单位 | Stockholm Environment Institute, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, United Kingdom; School of Physics & Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland; Environmental Hazards and Emergencies Dept, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England, Chilton, Oxon, United Kingdom; Ghana Environmental Protection Agency, Accra, Ghana |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Malley C.S.,Ashmore M.R.,Kuylenstierna J.C.I.,et al. Microenvironmental modelling of personal fine particulate matter exposure in Accra; Ghana[J],2020,225. |
| APA | Malley C.S..,Ashmore M.R..,Kuylenstierna J.C.I..,McGrath J.A..,Byrne M.A..,...&Benefoh D..(2020).Microenvironmental modelling of personal fine particulate matter exposure in Accra; Ghana.Atmospheric Environment,225. |
| MLA | Malley C.S.,et al."Microenvironmental modelling of personal fine particulate matter exposure in Accra; Ghana".Atmospheric Environment 225(2020). |
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