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Table 15 Benzo[a]pyrene concentration at various workplaces

From: Monitoring of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review

Workplace

Country

Benzo(a)piren (μg/m3)

References

Coke plants

Poland

 

Braszczyńska et al. (1975, 1976)

Oven platforms—before modernisation

 

99 (A), 112.3 (B), 112,4 (C)

 

After modernisation

 

25.8 1.3 2.3

 

Coke plants

Poland

 

Brzeźnicki (1995)

Coke charging man

 

25,7; 3.3

Braszczyńska (1989)

Coke guide man

 

4,5

 

Coke-quenching man

 

0,4

 

Coke man

 

2,6; 1.7

 

Coke door man

 

6,5; 25.6

 

Coke plants

Poland

 

Luks-Betlej and Bodzek (1992)

Battery

   

Coke charging car

 

2.72

 

Coke plants

Poland

 

Smolik (2001)

Battery top

 

5.54

 

Battery side

 

3.11

 

Battery bottom

 

0.65

 

Coke plants

Poland

 

Braszczyńska et al. (1976)

Battery

   

Coke charging system

 

273.2

 

Coke plants

Sweden

 

Levin (1995)

Battery topa

 

16

 

Battery topb

 

4.0

 

Coal conveyerc

 

2.6

 

Charging car

 

12

 

Oven doorsa

 

22

 

Oven doorsb

 

1.9

 

Oven platforms

Sweden

9.4–13.5

Lindstedt and Sollenberg (1982)

Driver of filling container

 

4.7–17

 

Aluminum plants—various workplaces

Norway

11.3–854

Bjørseth et al. (1978)

Coke plants

Finland

 

Pyy et al. (1997)

Gas worker

 

1.0; 2.2d

 

On the bridge of the larry car

 

5.0

 
  1. a20 cigarettes/day
  2. bNon-smoking
  3. c15 cigarettes/day
  4. dIn 1994