Bahadar Zeb1, Khan Alam2, Armin Sorooshian3,4, Thomas Blaschke5, Ifthikhar Ahmad1, Imran Shahid6. 1. Department of Physics, University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 2. Department of Physics, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 3. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. 4. Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. 5. Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. 6. Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Abstract
Particulate matter (PM) plays a vital role in altering air quality, human health, and climate change. There are sparse data relevant to PM characteristics in urban environments of the Middle East, including Peshawar city in Pakistan. This work reports on the morphology and composition of PM in two size fractions (PM2.5 and PM10) during November 2016 in Peshawar. The 24 hous mass concentration of PM2.5 varied from 72 μg m-3 to 500 μg m-3 with an average value of 286 μg m-3. The 24 hours PM10 concentration varied from 300 μg m-3 to 1440 μg m-3 with an average of 638 μg m-3. The morphology, size, and elemental composition of PM were measured using Fourier Transform Infra Red (FT-IR) Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) Spectroscopy. The size of the analyzed particles by EDX ranged from 916 nm to 22 μm. Particles were classified into the following groups based on their elemental composition and morphology: silica (12%), aluminosilicates (23%), calcium rich (3%), chloride (2%), Fe/Ti oxides (3%), carbonaceous (49%), sulfate (5%), biogenic (3%). The major identified sources of PM are vehicular emissions, biomass burning, soil and re-suspended road dust, biological emissions, and construction activities in and around the vicinity of the sampling site.
Parpan class="Chemical">ticulate matter (PM) plays a vital role in altering air quality, human health, and climate change. There are sparse data relevant to PM characteristics in urban environments of the Middle East, including Peshawar city in Pakistan. This work reports on the morphology and composition of PM in two size fractions (PM2.5 and PM10) during November 2016 in Peshawar. The 24 hous mass concentration of PM2.5 varied from 72 μg m-3 to 500 μg m-3 with an average value of 286 μg m-3. The 24 hours PM10 concentration varied from 300 μg m-3 to 1440 μg m-3 with an average of 638 μg m-3. The morphology, size, and elementalcomposition of PM were measured using Fourier Transform Infra Red (FT-IR) Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) Spectroscopy. The size of the analyzed particles by EDX ranged from 916 nm to 22 μm. Particles were classified into the following groups based on their elementalcomposition and morphology: silica (12%), aluminosilicates (23%), calcium rich (3%), chloride (2%), Fe/Ti oxides (3%), carbonaceous (49%), sulfate (5%), biogenic (3%). The major identified sources of PM are vehicular emissions, biomass burning, soil and re-suspended road dust, biological emissions, and construction activities in and around the vicinity of the sampling site.
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Energy Dispersive X-ray; Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy; Morphology and elemental composition; Particulate matter; Scanning Electron Microscopy
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