Three Year Studies on Particulate Matter (PM 10 & PM 2.5) Trends in Industrial Area Gajraula (U.P.), India

Authors

  • Atul Kumar Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, IFTM University, Moradabad 244102 U.P. India
  • Sarika Arora Pollution Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Hindu College, Moradabad 244001 U.P. India
  • Rahul Mishra Department of Chemistry, Hindu College, Moradabad 244001 U.P. India
  • Mahima Pollution Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Hindu College, Moradabad 244001 U.P. India
  • Ajay Kumar Pollution Ecology Research Laboratory Department of Botany, Hindu College, Moradabad 244001 U.P. India
  • Anamika Tripathi Pollution Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Hindu College, Moradabad 244001 U.P. India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/ans.v3i12.80

Keywords:

Particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5) pollution trends, Trace metals, Seasonal trend,, Statistical analysis (correlation, PCA, CA)

Abstract

Gajraula is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Amroha District in the state of western Uttar Pradesh, India. It is having a large number of industries thus there is an urgent need of ambient air pollution monitoring in this industrial area as residents of this city are exposed routinely to this air and odour pollutants load in the local air environment. Air quality monitoring (PM2.5 and PM10 collected) was done two times in a week using Respirable Dust Samplers (RDS) and Fine Particulate Sampler (FPS) at three sites industrial (S1), commercial (S2) and residential (S3), representing different areas of the Gajraula. The results indicate the annual and seasonal variations of PM10 and PM2.5 from March 2014- February 2017. The highest value of PM10 and PM2.5 (242µg/m3,138 µg/m3 ) was recorded at commercial site i.e. Indra Chowk (in winter season 2017) while lowest value (122µg/m3 , 56µg/m3) at Town Basti (in the monsoon season of 2014) respectively. Eight heavy metals i.e. Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, Cr, Fe, Al and Ni were also observed at all the sites. Multivariate statistical analyses were adopted including; correlation, principalcomponent analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) to identify the major sources of air pollutants in the industrial area. Among the metals highest concentrationwas recorded at S1 and S2(Raunaq Auotomotive and Indra Chowk) and lowest at S3(Town Basti). Commercial site (Indra Chowk) is located nearby Jubilant Life Sciences, TEVA and railway station as traffic density remains high during the day and night.

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2017-12-31

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Kumar, A., Arora, S., Mishra, R., Mahima, Kumar, A., & Tripathi, A. (2017). Three Year Studies on Particulate Matter (PM 10 & PM 2.5) Trends in Industrial Area Gajraula (U.P.), India. International Journal For Research In Applied And Natural Science, 3(12), 01–12. https://doi.org/10.53555/ans.v3i12.80

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