Assessing emission-driven changes in health risk of source-specific PM2.5-bound heavy metals by adjusting meteorological covariates

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Heavy metals (HMs) in PM2.5 gain much attention for their toxicity and carcinogenic risk. This study evaluates the health risks of PM2.5-bound HMs, focusing on how meteorological conditions affect these risks against the backdrop of PM2.5 reduction trends in China. By applying a receptor model with a meteorological normalization technique, followed by health risk assessment, this work reveals emission-driven changes in health risk of source-specific HMs in the outskirt of Tianjin during the implementation of China' second Clean Air Action (2018-2020). Sources of PM2.5-bound HMs were identified, with significant contributions from vehicular emissions (on average, 33.4 %), coal combustion (26.3 %), biomass burning (14.1 %), dust (11.7 %), industrial boilers (9.7 %), and shipping emission and sea salt (4.7 %). The source-specific emission-driven health risk can be enlarged or dwarfed by the changing meteorological conditions over time, demonstrating that the actual risks from these source emissions for a given time period may be higher or smaller than those estimated by traditional assessments. Meteorology contributed on average 56.1 % to the interannual changes in source-specific carcinogenic risk of HMs from 2018 to 2019, and 5.6 % from 2019 to 2020. For the source-specific noncarcinogenic risk changes, the contributions were 38.3 % and 46.4 % for the respective periods. Meteorology exerts a more profound impact on daily risk (short-term trends) than on annual risk (long-term trends). Such meteorological impacts differ among emission sources in both sign and magnitude. Reduced health risks of HMs were largely from targeted regulatory measures on sources. Therefore, the meteorological covariates should be considered to better evaluate the health benefits attributable to pollution control measures in health risk assessment frameworks.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:927

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 927(2024) vom: 01. Apr., Seite 172038

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Zhongwei [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Chengliang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Qili [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Tianjiao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yufen [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Danni [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yinchang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Air Pollutants
Health risk
Heavy metal
Journal Article
Metals, Heavy
Meteorological normalization
Particulate Matter
Source emission
Vehicle Emissions

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Date Completed 24.04.2024

Date Revised 24.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172038

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370424980