Abstract

Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in particulate matter from working atmospheres have been analyzed by a glass capillary gas chromatography—mass spectrometer—computer system which has high separation efficiency and is capable of separating and identifying these complex mixtures. More than one hundred polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons have been identified in samples from a coke plant and an aluminum smelter, including both pure polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and compounds where a CH-group is substituted with the hetero atoms oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur. The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in working atmospheres is compared to that in ambient air and emissions from other sources.

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