%0 Journal Article
%T Assessment of Road Dust Contamination in India
%A Dhananjay Sahu
%A Shobhana Ramteke
%A Nohar Singh Dahariya
%A Bharat Lal Sahu
%A Khageshwar Singh Patel
%A Laurent Matini
%A Jose Nicolas
%A Eduardo Yubero
%A Jan Hoinkis
%J Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
%P 77-88
%@ 2160-0422
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/acs.2016.61006
%X The road dusts (RD) are fugitive in nature causing potential health
hazards to people living in highways. They are generated from different sources
on the roads and being a valuable archive of environmental information. In the
present work, contamination assessment of 18 heavy metals and ions in road
dusts of the country are described. Techniques <i>i.e.</i> ion selective, ion chromatography and atomic absorption
spectrophotometers were used for analysis of the ions and metals. The content
of F<sup><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;white-space:normal;background-color:#FFFFFF;\">&amp;#45</span></span></sup><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, Cl</span><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;white-space:normal;background-color:#FFFFFF;\">&amp;#45</span></span></sup><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, <img src=\"Edit_73ea48c5-c8b3-4a52-999f-6935109585d7.bmp\" alt=\"\" /></span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, <img src=\"Edit_125e40ac-42ce-4e20-b55c-f5ddfeaf056a.bmp\" alt=\"\" /></span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, <img src=\"Edit_379f19f4-830a-4607-a98d-8124f7e157b5.bmp\" alt=\"\" /></span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, Na<sup>+</sup>, K<sup>+</sup>, Mg<sup>2+</sup>, Ca<sup>2+</sup>,
As, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb and Hg in the road dusts was ranged from </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">75 - 895, </span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">276 -
12718, 48 - 1423, 243 - 10,580, 11 - 539, 290 - 46,484, 110 - 7716, 84 - 1771,
595 - 15,955, </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">24 -
42, 164 - 526, 1711 - 5218, 63,850 - 144,835, 47 - 62, 81 - 720, 166 - 450, 92 -
295 and 0.05 - 0.12 </span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">mg/kg with mean value of 224 </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">¡À</span><span lang=\"EN-IN\"> 43, 3734 ¡À 895, 592
¡À 895, 2859 ¡À 662, 143 ¡À 29, 4826 ¡À 2049, 1565 ¡À 411, 837 ¡À 121, 8545 ¡À 1288,
31 ¡À 4, 246 ¡À 82, 3002 ¡À 851, 91,331 ¡À 18,587, 54 ¡À 4, 206 ¡À 145, 241 ¡À 64, 171
¡À 42 and 0.08 ¡À 0.02 mg/kg, respectively (at 95% probability). The enrichment,
variation, correlation and sources of the contaminants are discussed.</span>
%K Ions
%K Heavy Metals
%K Sources
%K Road Dust
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=62743