Estimating the Air Pollution Intake Dose in Three Port Cities in Europe with the Use of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Measurements from Low-Cost Sensors

In urban areas, people live under poor air quality conditions since exceedances in limit concentrations set by the European Union are usually recorded. In port cities, air quality is further deteriorated due to emissions from port activities. This work investigates the variation in fine Particulate...

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Main Authors: Efstratia Karagiannopoulou, Kyriaki-Maria Fameli, Christos Tsitsis, Konstantinos Moustris, Kleopatra Ntourou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Environmental Sciences Proceedings
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4931/26/1/71
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Summary:In urban areas, people live under poor air quality conditions since exceedances in limit concentrations set by the European Union are usually recorded. In port cities, air quality is further deteriorated due to emissions from port activities. This work investigates the variation in fine Particulate Matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) through the recordings of PurpleAir low-cost sensors in Aarhus, Hamburg, and Lisbon, which are in northern, central, and southern Europe, respectively, for the period of 2020–2022. Moreover, the calculation of the Intake Dose (ID) was attempted for active population groups of men and women aged from 21 to 61 years old. The results showed that the male population groups of active working ages generally inhale higher amounts of particulate matters.
ISSN:2673-4931