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Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler

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Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler. / Chaemfa, Chakra; Xu, Yue; Li, Jun et al.
In: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 9, 06.05.2014, p. 4799-4808.

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Chaemfa, C, Xu, Y, Li, J, Chakraborty, P, Hussain Syed, J, Naseem Malik, R, Wang, Y, Tian, C, Zhang, G & Jones, KC 2014, 'Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 4799-4808. https://doi.org/10.1021/es405186m

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Chaemfa, C., Xu, Y., Li, J., Chakraborty, P., Hussain Syed, J., Naseem Malik, R., Wang, Y., Tian, C., Zhang, G., & Jones, K. C. (2014). Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler. Environmental Science and Technology, 48(9), 4799-4808. https://doi.org/10.1021/es405186m

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Chaemfa C, Xu Y, Li J, Chakraborty P, Hussain Syed J, Naseem Malik R et al. Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler. Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 May 6;48(9):4799-4808. doi: 10.1021/es405186m

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Chaemfa, Chakra ; Xu, Yue ; Li, Jun et al. / Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler. In: Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 ; Vol. 48, No. 9. pp. 4799-4808.

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title = "Screening of atmospheric short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in India and Pakistan using polyurethane foam based passive air sampler",
abstract = "Production and use of chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been increasing in India. Distribution of CPs in the area and vicinity have become a great concern due to their persistency and toxicity. Polyurethane foam based passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) was deployed in order to screen the presence of short- and medium- chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs and MCCPs) in the outdoor atmosphere at many sites in India (in winter 2006) and Pakistan (in winter 2011). Concentrations of SCCPs and MCCPs ranged from not detected (ND) to 47.4 and 0 to 38.2 ng m(-3) with means of 8.11 and 4.83 ng m(-3), respectively. Indian concentrations showed higher average levels of both SCCPs and MCCPs India (10.2 ng m(-3) and 3.62 ng m(-3)than the samples from Pakistan (5.13 ng m(-3) and 4.21 ng m(-3)). Relative abundance patterns of carbon number are C10 > C11 > C12 ∼ C13 for SCCPs and C14 > C15 > C16 C17 for MCCP with similarity to the profiles of samples from China, the biggest CPs producer in the world. Principal Component Analysis suggested that detected SCCPs and MCCPs in this study originated from the same emission source.",
author = "Chakra Chaemfa and Yue Xu and Jun Li and Paromita Chakraborty and {Hussain Syed}, Jabir and {Naseem Malik}, Riffat and Yan Wang and Chongguo Tian and Gan Zhang and Jones, {Kevin C.}",
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AU - Chaemfa, Chakra

AU - Xu, Yue

AU - Li, Jun

AU - Chakraborty, Paromita

AU - Hussain Syed, Jabir

AU - Naseem Malik, Riffat

AU - Wang, Yan

AU - Tian, Chongguo

AU - Zhang, Gan

AU - Jones, Kevin C.

PY - 2014/5/6

Y1 - 2014/5/6

N2 - Production and use of chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been increasing in India. Distribution of CPs in the area and vicinity have become a great concern due to their persistency and toxicity. Polyurethane foam based passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) was deployed in order to screen the presence of short- and medium- chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs and MCCPs) in the outdoor atmosphere at many sites in India (in winter 2006) and Pakistan (in winter 2011). Concentrations of SCCPs and MCCPs ranged from not detected (ND) to 47.4 and 0 to 38.2 ng m(-3) with means of 8.11 and 4.83 ng m(-3), respectively. Indian concentrations showed higher average levels of both SCCPs and MCCPs India (10.2 ng m(-3) and 3.62 ng m(-3)than the samples from Pakistan (5.13 ng m(-3) and 4.21 ng m(-3)). Relative abundance patterns of carbon number are C10 > C11 > C12 ∼ C13 for SCCPs and C14 > C15 > C16 C17 for MCCP with similarity to the profiles of samples from China, the biggest CPs producer in the world. Principal Component Analysis suggested that detected SCCPs and MCCPs in this study originated from the same emission source.

AB - Production and use of chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been increasing in India. Distribution of CPs in the area and vicinity have become a great concern due to their persistency and toxicity. Polyurethane foam based passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) was deployed in order to screen the presence of short- and medium- chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs and MCCPs) in the outdoor atmosphere at many sites in India (in winter 2006) and Pakistan (in winter 2011). Concentrations of SCCPs and MCCPs ranged from not detected (ND) to 47.4 and 0 to 38.2 ng m(-3) with means of 8.11 and 4.83 ng m(-3), respectively. Indian concentrations showed higher average levels of both SCCPs and MCCPs India (10.2 ng m(-3) and 3.62 ng m(-3)than the samples from Pakistan (5.13 ng m(-3) and 4.21 ng m(-3)). Relative abundance patterns of carbon number are C10 > C11 > C12 ∼ C13 for SCCPs and C14 > C15 > C16 C17 for MCCP with similarity to the profiles of samples from China, the biggest CPs producer in the world. Principal Component Analysis suggested that detected SCCPs and MCCPs in this study originated from the same emission source.

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