Impacts of vehicle emission on air quality and human health in China

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The growing of vehicle population aggravates air pollution and threatens human health. In this study, based on the refined whole-process vehicle emission inventory considering volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evaporation emission, the CAMx model was applied to comprehensively quantify the impacts of the vehicle sector on the annual and seasonal concentrations of PM2.5 and O3 in China. Also, the health risks caused by long-term exposure to PM2.5 and O3 were evaluated. The model results showed that vehicle emission was an important source of severe O3 pollution in summer, with a contribution of more than 30% in most parts of China, but not an important source of serious PM2.5 pollution in winter, with a contribution of less than 20% in heavily polluted regions in China. Compared to tailpipe emission, vehicle VOCs evaporation emission led to increases of 25% and 47% to sectoral contribution to PM2.5 and O3. Health risk assessment results showed that attributable deaths caused by long-term exposure to PM2.5 and O3 were 975,029 and 46,043 in 2018, to which vehicle emission contributed approximately 12.5% and 22.2%, respectively.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:813

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 813(2022) vom: 20. März, Seite 152655

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Zhenyu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Zhaofeng [VerfasserIn]
He, Tingkun [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Junchao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yongyue [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhining [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Huan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

66H7ZZK23N
Air Pollutants
Fine particulate matter
Health risk
Journal Article
Ozone
Particulate Matter
Source apportionment
Vehicle Emissions
Vehicle emission

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Date Completed 08.02.2022

Date Revised 08.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152655

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33490059X