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PM10 source apportionment in the surroundings of the San Vicente del Raspeig cement plant complex in southeastern Spain

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Introduction

The concentrations of trace metals, ionic species, and carbonaceous components in PM10 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 10 µm) were measured from samples collected near an industrial complex, primarily composed of cement plants, in southeastern Spain, from September 2005 to August 2006.

Materials and methods

Positive matrix factorization and conditional probability function were applied to this data set to identify different types of sources.

Results

Six significant sources were identified: crustal matter, traffic, aged sea salt, industrial emissions, secondary aerosol, and sea salt. The difficulty of separating anthropogenic sources from those of natural origin is highlighted in this study; in particular, the crustal source can be connected with both natural (African outbreaks, wind resuspension) and man-made emissions, like fugitive emissions in an industrial environment.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Elche City Hall for allowing access to their facilities for the placement of the instruments, the Air Quality Surveillance Network of the Valencian Community Regional Government for supplying data, and Paul Nordstrom and Guillermo Escribano for their assistance in this work. This work was funded by research project from the Spanish Ministry of Environment (GRACCIE-CSD2007-00067)

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  1. Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution (LCA), Miguel Hernández University, Av. de la Universidad s/n, Edif. Alcudia, 03202, Elche, Spain

    Eduardo Yubero, Javier Crespo & Jose Nicolás

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alicante, P. O. Box 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain

    Adoración Carratalá & Milagros Santacatalina

  3. Physics Department, University of Florence and INFN, via Sansone 1, 1-50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Silvia Nava, Franco Lucarelli & Massimo Chiari

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Yubero, E., Carratalá, A., Crespo, J. et al. PM10 source apportionment in the surroundings of the San Vicente del Raspeig cement plant complex in southeastern Spain. Environ Sci Pollut Res 18, 64–74 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-010-0352-9

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