Ariola, V. and Bernardoni, V. and Calzolai, G. and Chiari, M. and Cuccia, E. and Lucarelli, F. and Mazzei, F. and Nava, S. and Prati, P. and Valli, G. and Vecchi, R. (2008) Nuclear techniques and the particulate matter pollution in big harbours. Il nuovo cimento C, 31 (4). pp. 527-536. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
The impact of big harbours on the air quality is an important issue both from the environmental and the economical point of view. The harbour of Genoa is the largest in Italy and one of the major ports of the Mediterranean. We have determined the fraction of Particulate Matter (PM) concentration in town due to the heavy oil combustion of the diesel engines of the vessels in the harbour. This turned out to be 12% in PM10 and 25% in PM2.5 and PM1, with about 85% of the PM from this source concentrated in particles with aerodynamic diameter, Dae < 1 μm. We could also point out a link between concentration peaks of the tracers of heavy oil combustion (V and Ni) and the ferryboats traffic. The key tool in this work was the coupling between particular sampling devices and some Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) techniques, in particular Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), which belong to the broader category of nuclear techniques in applied physics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Particles and aerosols ; X-ray, M¨ossbauer, and other γ-ray spectroscopic analysis methods ; Linear accelerators ; Instruments for environmental pollution measurements |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2020 16:52 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2020 16:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16388 |
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