title: Spatial variation of contaminant elements of roadside dust samples from Budapest (Hungary) and Seoul (Republic of Korea), including Pt, Pd and Ir.
abstract: Roadside dusts were studied to explain the spatial variation and present levels of contaminant elements including Pt, Pd and Ir in urban environment and around Budapest (Hungary) and Seoul (Republic of Korea). The samples were collected from six sites of high traffic volumes in Seoul metropolitan city and from two control sites within the suburbs of Seoul, for comparison. Similarly, road dust samples were obtained two times from traffic focal points in Budapest, from the large bridges across the River Danube, from Margitsziget (an island in the Danube in the northern part of Budapest, used for recreation) as well as from main roads (no highways) outside Budapest. The samples were analysed for contaminant elements by ICP-AES and for Pt, Pd and Ir by ICP-MS. The highest Pt, Pd and Ir levels in road dusts were found from major roads with high traffic volume, but correlations with other contaminant elements were low, however. This reflects automobile catalytic converter to be an important source. To interpret the obtained multi-element results in short, pollution index, contamination index and geo-accumulation index were calculated. Finally, the obtained data were compared with total concentrations encountered in dust samples from Madrid, Oslo, Tokyo and Muscat (Oman). Dust samples from Seoul reached top level concentrations for Cd-Zn-As-Co-Cr-Cu-Mo-Ni-Sn. Just Pb was rather low because unleaded gasoline was introduced as compulsory in 1993. Concentrations in Budapest dust samples were lower than from Seoul, except for Pb and Mg. Compared with Madrid as another continental site, Budapest was higher in Co-V-Zn. Dust from Oslo, which is not so large, contained more Mn-Na-Sr than dust from other towns, but less other metals.
authors.affiliation: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Spargelfeldstrasse 191, 1220, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sager
authors.forename: Hyo-Taek
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Chon
authors.forename: Laszlo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marton
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D006814:Hungary; D007495:Iridium / Q000032:analysis; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis*; D010165:Palladium / Q000032:analysis; D010984:Platinum / Q000032:analysis; D066106:Seoul; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry; D062206:Spatial Analysis; D001335:Vehicle Emissions / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004391:Dust; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D012987:Soil; D001335:Vehicle Emissions; D007495:Iridium; D010984:Platinum; D010165:Palladium
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