Abstract
The paper presents comparison of outdoor and indoor air pollution by means of magnetic characteristics of dust settled on the floor indoors (ID) and particulate matter (PM) gathered outdoor on air filters. Samples were collected for one year period in three different locations in Warsaw, Poland. PM was collected in samplers placed at the yard of buildings and ID was collected inside these buildings using a vacuum cleaner. The magnetic methods supplemented by chemical elements analysis and microscope observations were applied to identification of magnetic mineralogy, concentration and grain-size of magnetic fraction and morphology and shape of particles.The results demonstrated differences in magnetic mineralogy and in grain-size distribution between PM and ID. The magnetite was the main magnetic phase in PM and magnetite with metallic iron in ID. The ratios of hysteresis parameters for PM and ID were located in different areas on Day-Dunlop diagram; PM data in the area for PSD magnetite and fine SP grains and ID data around SD + MD mixing curves for magnetite.The difference in magnetic mineralogy, especially the lack of metallic iron in PM, can be explained by the limitation of dust samplers that cannot collect grains larger than roughly 50 μm due to our microscopic observations. PM samplers collect population of dust with smaller grain size than vacuum cleaner or simple sweeping of a floor. The difference in granulometry and outdoor/indoor sources could be one of the reasons for which we did not observed the simple relation between magnetic susceptibility of ID and PM.
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