Risk assessment of heavy metals in road and soil dusts within PM 2.5, PM 10 and PM 100 fractions in Dongying city, Shandong Province, China

S Kong, B Lu, Y Ji, X Zhao, Z Bai, Y Xu, Y Liu… - Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
15 road and 14 soil dust samples were collected from an oilfield city, Dongying, from
11/2009–4/2010 and analyzed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) …

Contamination levels and human health risk assessment of toxic heavy metals in street dust in an industrial city in Northwest China

Y Jiang, L Shi, A Guang, Z Mu, H Zhan… - … Geochemistry and Health, 2018 - Springer
This study investigated the content, distribution, and contamination levels of toxic metals
(Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn) in street dust in Lanzhou, an industrial city in Northwest China …

A comprehensive analysis of heavy metals in urban road dust of Xi'an, China: contamination, source apportionment and spatial distribution

H Pan, X Lu, K Lei - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
A detailed investigation was conducted to study heavy metal contamination in road dust from
four regions of Xi'an, Northwest China. The concentrations of eight heavy metals Co, Cr, Cu …

Concentration and ecological risk of heavy metal in street dusts of Eslamshahr, Iran

H Kamani, N Mirzaei, M Ghaderpoori… - … and ecological risk …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study was done to evaluate heavy metal concentrations in street dust samples, to
compare measured concentrations in samples to background concentrations in order to …

Monitoring of heavy metal levels in roadside dusts of Thessaloniki, Greece in relation to motor vehicle traffic density and flow

C Ewen, MA Anagnostopoulou, NI Ward - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2009 - Springer
In recent years, the level of heavy metal pollution in urban areas has been of considerable
concern. The principal source has been attributed to the motor vehicle and increasing inner …

Chemical speciation, human health risk assessment and pollution level of selected heavy metals in urban street dust of Shiraz, Iran

B Keshavarzi, Z Tazarvi, MA Rajabzadeh… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
The distribution, pollution level, sources and health risk of Hg, As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Mn, Fe, Pb,
Sb and Zn in urban street dust were investigated. X-ray diffraction analysis of dust samples …

Pollution and health risk of potentially toxic metals in urban road dust in Nanjing, a mega-city of China

E Liu, T Yan, G Birch, Y Zhu - Science of the Total Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Spatial variations in concentrations of a suite of potentially toxic metals (Ba, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn,
Ni, Pb and Zn) and Ca in road dusts (n= 99) from urban trunk roads (TR) in Nanjing, a mega …

Pollution characteristics and health risk assessment of heavy metals in street dusts from different functional areas in Beijing, China

X Wei, B Gao, P Wang, H Zhou, J Lu - Ecotoxicology and environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Street dusts from Heavy Density Traffic Area, Residential Area, Educational Area
and Tourism Area in Beijing, China, were collected to study the distribution, accumulation …

Ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in road dust in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India

S Roy, SK Gupta, J Prakash, G Habib, K Baudh… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The present study was carried out to determine the contamination levels of heavy metals in
road dust of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), India and its consequent effect on …

Heavy metal pollution of street dust in the largest city of Mexico, sources and health risk assessment

A Aguilera, F Bautista, M Gutiérrez-Ruiz… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
In large industrialized cities, tons of particles containing heavy metals are released into the
environment and accumulate on street surfaces. Such particles cause a potential risk to …