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SVOC Partitioning Between the Gas Phase and Settled Dust Indoors Atmospheric Environment 44 (2010) 3609e3620 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Atmospheric Environment journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/atmosenv Review SVOC partitioning between the gas phase and settled dust indoors Charles J. Weschler a,b,*, William W Nazaroff c a Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA b International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1710, USA article info abstract Article history: Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are a major class of indoor pollutants. Understanding SVOC Received 17 February 2010 partitioning between the gas phase and settled dust is important for characterizing the fate of these Received in revised form species indoors and the pathways by which humans are exposed to them. Such knowledge also helps in 11 June 2010 crafting measurement programs for epidemiological studies designed to probe potential associations Accepted 14 June 2010 between exposure to these compounds and adverse health effects. In this paper, we analyze published data from nineteen studies that cumulatively report measurements of dustborne and airborne SVOCs in Keywords: more than a thousand buildings, mostly residences, in seven countries. In aggregate, measured median Exposure pathways fi Flame retardants data are reported in these studies for 66 different SVOCs whose octanol-air partition coef cients (Koa) fi Indoor environment span more than ve orders of magnitude. We use these data to test a simple equilibrium model for Octanol-air partitioning estimating the partitioning of an SVOC between the gas phase and settled dust indoors. The results Pesticides demonstrate, in central tendency, that a compound’s octanol-air partition coefficient is a strong predictor Plasticizers of its abundance in settled dust relative to its gas phase concentration. Using median measured results for each SVOC in each study, dustborne mass fractions predicted using Koa and gas-phase concentrations correlate reasonably well with measured dustborne mass fractions (R2 ¼ 0.76). Combined with theoretical understanding of SVOC partitioning kinetics, the empirical evidence also suggests that for SVOCs with high Koa values, the mass fraction in settled dust may not have sufficient time to equilibrate with the gas phase concentration. Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction coefficient, Koa, might be used to estimate equilibrium partitioning indoors (Weschler and Nazaroff, 2008). The aim of the present Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) found indoors include study is to employ empirical data to critically evaluate the predic- flame retardants, such as the polybrominated diphenyl ethers tive potential of Koa for quantifying SVOC partitioning between the (PBDEs); pesticides, such as chlordane, chlorpyrifos, and diazinon; gas phase and settled dust in indoor environments. plasticizers, such as di(n-butyl) phthalate (DnBP), butylbenzyl phthalate (BBzP) and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP); heat transfer fluids, such as the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which 2. Methods were also widely used as plasticizers; and combustion byproducts, such as benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), dioxins, and furans. Indoors, SVOCs 2.1. Estimating SVOC mass fractions in settled dust can partition among several compartments, including the gas phase, airborne particles, settled dust, exposed inanimate surfaces, We analyzed data from studies that reported simultaneously and even to the surfaces of the occupants themselves. Such parti- measured SVOC mass fractions in dust (Xdust, typically in units of mgof tioning affects the fate of indoor SVOCs and influences the path- dust-associated SVOC per g of dust) and mass concentrations of ways by which humans are exposed (Lioy, 2006; Xu et al., 2010). airborne SVOCs. The latter included measurements of gas-phase Recently, we summarized how a compound’s octanol-air partition concentrations, concentrations associated with airborne particles, or concentrations of gaseous and particulate airborne SVOCs combined. Overall, measured dust-air pairs were cumulatively available for 66 separate SVOCs, one or more of which were measured in more than * Corresponding author. Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Insti- a thousand distinct buildings, as collectively reported in nineteen tute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University, 170 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. studies. For each SVOC in each study, we used the measured median E-mail address: [email protected] (C.J. Weschler). airborne concentration to compute a predicted equilibrium mass 1352-2310/$ e see front matter Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.029 3610 C.J. Weschler, W.W. Nazaroff / Atmospheric Environment 44 (2010) 3609e3620 Nomenclature Koa octanol-air partition coefficient, corresponding to mass of SVOC dissolved in octonol per volume of e3 Cg SVOC gas-phase concentration (mgm ) octanol normalized by the mass concentration of Cp mass of SVOC sorbed to particles per unit volume of air gaseous SVOC (d) e3 (mgm ) Kp particle-air partition coefficient for SVOC, -3 (Cg +Cp) total SVOC airborne concentration (mgm ) corresponding to mass of particle-sorbed SVOC per fom_dust volume fraction of organic matter associated with mass of particle normalized by the mass concentration e settled dust (d) of gaseous SVOC (m3 mg 1) e3 fom_part volume fraction of organic matter associated with TSP mass concentration of airborne particles (mgm ) airborne particles (d) Xdust mass-fraction of SVOC in dust (mg of dust-associated 3 -1 Kdg dust-air partition coefficient for SVOC (m mg ); SVOC per g of dust) Kdg ¼ Kdust /rdust Xdust,meas measured mass-fraction of SVOC in dust Kdust dust-air partition coefficient for SVOC, corresponding Xdust,pred predicted mass-fraction of SVOC in dust e3 to mass of dust-sorbed SVOC per volume of dust rdust density of settled dust (mg m ) e3 normalized by the mass concentration of gaseous rpart density of airborne particles (mg m ) SVOC (d) fraction in dust, which was then compared with the median gas phase and settled dust indoors. Equation (1) can be rearranged measured mass fraction in dust. (In a few cases, as detailed in the to calculate a predicted mass fraction of a given SVOC in dust: footnotes to Tables 1aec, we used proxies because the medians of   measured values were not reported.) ¼ fom dust Koa Cg Xdust;pred r (2) We define Kdg as the equilibrium coefficient that describes an dust SVOC’s partitioning between settled dust and the gas phase. More In the present work, for each SVOC in each study, we computed an specifically, it is the ratio of the mass fraction in dust (mg of dust- X value, using the SVOC’s K at 298 K and its measured or borne SVOC per g of dust) to the gaseous SVOC concentration (ng of dust,pred oa 3 inferred median gas-phase concentration, Cg. In doing so, we gas-phase SVOC per m of air) and so has dimensions of volume/ 6 À3 À assumed that f was 0.2 and that r was 2.0  10 gm mass (mg/g O ng/m3 ¼ m3 mg 1). As defined here, it is analogous to om_dust dust based on the measurements reported in Hunt et al. (1992). In some but not identical to K , a parameter described in our recent dust cases, it was necessary to determine gas-phase concentrations from review (Weschler and Nazaroff, 2008, Eq. 3.11). The parameter measured particle-phase (C ) or total airborne (C þ C ) concen- K is dimensionless, being defined as the ratio of the SVOC p g p dust trations. To do this, we estimated the equilibrium constant that concentration in dust (e.g., ng SVOC/m3 dust) to the gas-phase describes partitioning of an SVOC between airborne particles and SVOC concentration. These two partitioning coefficients are the gas phase, Kp, as follows (Weschler and Nazaroff, 2008): related through the expression Kdust ¼ Kdg  rdust, where rdust is the density of dust. We use the parameter Kdg in this paper to conform  ¼ fom part Koa to the units in which SVOC abundances in dust and air are Kp r (3) part commonly reported. With one exception, the Koa values used in this work were Here, Kp represents the sorbed mass of SVOC on airborne particles determined using the SPARC online calculator, September 2009 per particle mass normalized by the gaseous mass concentration of release w4.5 (Hilal et al., 2004; http://ibmlc2.chem.uga.edu/sparc/). the SVOC. In evaluating Kp, we assumed that the volume fraction of fi There were dif culties calculating Koa for pentachlorophenol using organic matter associated with airborne particles (fom_part) was 0.4 release w4.5; for this compound only, we used the value we had (Fromme et al., 2005) and that the density of airborne particles was À previously calculated with release w4.0. (See Table 3 of Weschler 1 Â106 gm 3 (Turpin and Lim, 2001). In the one case where the and Nazaroff, 2008.) particle phase SVOC, Cp, was measured, the gas phase concentration For equilibrium conditions, the ratio, Kdg, of an SVOC’s mass was estimated using this relationship: fraction in dust, Xdust, to its gaseous concentration, Cg, is expected to be directly proportional to the octanol-air partition coefficient, K , oa ¼ Cp and to the fraction of the dust that is organic matter, f ;itis Cg (4) om_dust TSP  Kp inversely proportional to the dust density (Pankow, 1994, 1998; Finizio et al., 1997; Cousins and Mackay, 2001; Xiao and Wania, where TSP is the average indoor mass concentration of airborne 2003; Weschler and Nazaroff, 2008): particles, assumed to be 20 mg/m3. In cases in which the total airborne SVOC concentration, Cg þ Cp, had been measured, the gas-  phase concentration was estimated using this relationship: ¼ Xdust ¼ fom dust Koa Kdg r (1) Cg dust þ ¼ CÀp Cg Á Equation (1) is a theoretical relationship.
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