Contribution of railway traffic to local PM10 concentrations in Switzerland
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Autor:innen
Gehrig, Robert
Hill, Matz
Lienemann, Peter
Zwicky, Christoph N.
Bukowiecki, Nicolas
Baltensperger, Urs
Buchmann, Brigitte
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
02/2007
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Atmospheric Environment
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
41
Ausgabe / Nummer
5
Seiten / Dauer
923-933
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Elsevier
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Amsterdam
Auflage
Version
Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
Praxispartner:in/Auftraggeber:in
Zusammenfassung
Field measurement campaigns of PM10 and its elemental composition (daily sampling on filters) covering different seasons were performed at two sites near the busiest railway station of Switzerland in Zurich (at a distance of 10 m from the tracks) and at a site near a very busy railway line with more than 700 trains per day. At this latter site parallel samples were taken at 10, 36 and 120 m distances from the tracks with the aim to study the distance dependence of the railway induced PM10 concentrations. To distinguish the relatively small railway emissions from the regional background (typically 20–25 μg m−3), simultaneous samples were also taken at an urban background site in Zurich. The differences in PM10 and elemental concentrations between the railway exposed sites and the background site were allocated to the railway contribution. Small, however, measurable PM10 concentration differences were found at all sites. The elemental composition of these differences revealed iron as the only quantitatively important constituent. As a long-term average it amounted to approximately 1 μg m−3 Fe at a distance of 10 m from the tracks at all three sites. Assuming that iron was at least partly oxidised (e.g. in the form of Fe2O3) the contribution can amount up to 1.5 μg m−3. Emissions of copper, manganese and chromium from trains were also clearly identified. However, compared to iron these, elements were emitted in very low quantities. No significant contribution from rock material (calcium, aluminium, magnesium, sodium) was observed as might have been expected from erosion, abrasion and resuspension from the gravel below the tracks. Particle emissions from diesel exhaust were not considered as trains in Switzerland are operated nearly exclusively by electric locomotives. The railway, induced contribution to ambient PM10 decreased rapidly with increasing distance from the tracks. At a distance of 120 m this contribution dropped to only 25% of the contribution observed at 10 m distance.
Schlagwörter
Particulate matter, Railroad, Iron, Abrasion
Fachgebiet (DDC)
380 - Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
500 - Naturwissenschaften
500 - Naturwissenschaften
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1352-2310
0004-6981
0004-6981
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Nein
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Closed
Lizenz
Zitation
GEHRIG, Robert, Matz HILL, Peter LIENEMANN, Christoph N. ZWICKY, Nicolas BUKOWIECKI, Ernest WEINGARTNER, Urs BALTENSPERGER und Brigitte BUCHMANN, 2007. Contribution of railway traffic to local PM10 concentrations in Switzerland. Atmospheric Environment. Februar 2007. Bd. 41, Nr. 5, S. 923–933. DOI 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.09.021. Verfügbar unter: https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/46705