TPH-contaminated Mexican refinery soil: Health risk assessment and the first year of changes

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 91, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 237-255

  Iturbe, Rosario ^a   Flores, Rosa M ^a   Flores, Carlos R ^a   Torres, Luis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Health risk assesment; Metals; PAHs; Refinery soil; TPHs

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; HYDROCARBONS; PIPELINES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; VANADIUM;

TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS (TPH);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACENAPHTHENE; ANTHRACENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CARCINOGEN; CHRYSENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; IRON; LEAD; NAPHTHALENE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADIUM; ZINC;

HEALTH RISK; PAH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; COASTAL PLAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; MEXICO; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PIPELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; STORAGE; VALVE;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MEXICO; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0942266368     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000009239.55534.08     Document Type: Article

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