Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the use of low volume air sampler (LVAS) and polyurethane foam disk passive air samplers (PUF PAS) for better measurement of atmospheric polychlorinared biphenyls (PCBs) concentrations. Air samples were collected by a low volume air sampler (LVAS) and PUF PAS, a total of two pairs were continuously collected at the same time for 4 weeks. A good correlation was shown [MonoCB∼DiCB : R<sup>2</sup>=0.8289(p=0.012), TriCB∼HexaCB : R<sup>2</sup>=0.8388(p<0.0001)] between atmospheric PCBs concentration measured by the LVAS and PUF PAS. The sampling rate of all PCBs isomers showed higher than which were measured by other researchers in different cities. However, trace POPs such as PCBs may involve relatively large analytical errors in measurement, and as a result the air sampling rate of the respective PCB isomer is also likely to involve errors. The method of using a regression straight line between the concentrations obtained by the LVAS and those from the PUF PAS was judged better than the method using the sampling rate, since the former compensated for the experimental errors in the process of evaluation of atmospheric PCBs concentrations using the PUF PAS.
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