Ambient hydrocarbons from motor-car assembly plants in Scandinavia
Journal article, 1982

About 50 air-polluting hydrocarbons were determined in emissions from the Volvo and Saab motor-car plants. The sampling technique used was based on the Tenax GC adsorbent. Thermal desorption and glass capillary gas chromatography was used for the analysis. At a downwind distance of about 1 km, concentrations about 100 times higher than regional levels were recorded. The emissions constitute potential ecological and health hazards and a reduction of quantities and complexity is urgent.

toluene

automotive industry

xylene

air pollutants

paints

environment

solvents

plumes

Author

Göran Petersson

Department of Chemical Environmental Science

Environmental Pollution (Series B)

Vol. 4 207-217

Subject Categories

Analytical Chemistry

Other Environmental Engineering

Environmental Sciences

DOI

10.1016/0143-148X(82)90053-2

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10/8/2017