ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Traffic-generated Air Pollution with Volatile Organic Compounds in Kraków and its Environs
A. Juszkiewicz*, B. Kijak
More details
Hide details
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of General Chemistry, Ingardena 3, 30-060 Kraków, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2003;12(1):49-56
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The content of volatile hydrocarbons in the atmospheric air in Kraków as well as in the country in the vicinity of A-4 motorway was determined. The air was sampled to canisters made of electropolished stainless steel. The determinations of hydrocarbons were performed on a gas chromatograph equipped with a cryogenic trap and flame-ionization detector. The contribution of traffic to air pollution with volatile hydrocarbons both in built-up and open areas in the vicinity of busy motorways was estimated.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.