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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (01): 169-175.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.01.16

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The Spatial-Temporal Distribution Characteristics and Contamination Assessments of Heavy Metals in the Road Dusts of Beijing

YU Xiangnan(), LI Feiyang, FU Gengxue, FENG Haiyan(), XIONG Feng   

  1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2018-05-21 Revised:2018-09-25 Online:2019-02-26 Published:2019-02-28
  • Contact: FENG Haiyan

Abstract:

The fast urbanization of Beijing which is the economic and cultural center of China has brought a series of environmental problems. Humans’ health can be hurt by absorbed urban road dust. 46 road dust samples were collected in 6 functional areas in Beijing during spring and winter respectively to investigate the concentrations and spatial distributions of heavy metals (Cr, Pb, Cd, As and Hg) in the research. The methods of single factor index and Nemerow index were applied to evaluate the contaminated degree of road dust. The results indicated that the average concentrations of other elements were all higher than the values of the local soil background except for the element of As in winter. The max average concentrations of the 5 heavy metals in road dust were found in urban areas’ values and the min ones were found in the suburban areas’ values. Calculated single factor index revealed that the element of As was not exceeded in each functional area in winter and spring, whereas all the other elements caused contaminations to certain extend and the contamination of Cd was the most serious one. Results based on comprehensive pollution index showed that heavy metals in road dust were all slightly exceeded in various functional areas in winter and the results in spring showed the suburbs’ areas were clean, the factory and residential and commercial areas were slightly polluted and the leisure and educational areas were moderately polluted.

Key words: Beijing, road dust, functional area, heavy metal, contamination evaluation

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