Atmospheric BTEX concentrations in the vicinity of the crude oil refinery of the Baltic region

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 182, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 115-127

  Baltrėnas, Pranas ^a   Baltrėnaitė, Edita ^a   Šerevičienė, Vaida ^a   Pereira, Paulo ^a,b  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b GRAM ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Air quality monitoring; BTEX; Crude oil refinery; Passive samplers; PCA; VOCs

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BENZENE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HEALTH RISKS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFINING; RURAL AREAS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WIND;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC LEVELS; BENZENE , TOLUENE , ETHYLBENZENE , AND XYLENES; BTEX; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OIL REFINERIES; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

CRUDE OIL;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; PETROLEUM; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BTEX; CRUDE OIL; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BALTIC STATES; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMIDITY; OIL INDUSTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

BALTIC REGION; LITHUANIA;

EID: 80054751981     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1862-0     Document Type: Article

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