Health Risks of Organic Contaminated Soil in an Out-of-Service Oil Refinery Site

Health risks assessment due to exposure to organic contaminated soil at an oil refinery out of service is conducted in this study by integrating health risk methods of U.S. EPA （United States Environmental Protection Agency）, ASTM （American Society for Testing and Materials） and VROM （Ministry of Ho...

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Published inJournal of earth science (Wuhan, China) Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 121 - 128
Main Author 化勇鹏 罗泽娇 程胜高 向睿
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences 01.02.2012
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Anthracene
Benzene
Biogeosciences
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth science
Earth Sciences
Environmental protection
Geochemistry
Geology
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Health hazards
Health risk assessment
Health risks
Ingestion
Inhalation
Oil pollution
Organic soils
Refineries
Risk assessment
Soil contamination
健康风险评估
有机污染土壤
服务
炼油厂
网站功能
美国环境保护局
美国试验与材料协会
苯并（a）芘
USA
Netherlands
organic contamination
contaminated site health risk
soil
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ISSN1674-487X
1867-111X
DOI10.1007/s12583-012-0237-6

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Summary:Health risks assessment due to exposure to organic contaminated soil at an oil refinery out of service is conducted in this study by integrating health risk methods of U.S. EPA （United States Environmental Protection Agency）, ASTM （American Society for Testing and Materials） and VROM （Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in Netherlands）, with the localized parameters using Chinese demographic characteristics and site features. The monitoring results show that the concentration of benzene, benzo（a）pyrene and benzo（a）anthracene in the soil of the site all exceed their risk screening values, respectively, with pollutants concentrated in soil 0.1-5.5 m beneath the surface. To estimate health risks of the site with the 95% upper confidence limit of the pollution, we focus on three major exposure pathways, namely, oral ingestion, dermal contact and breath inhalation, which indicates carcinogenic risk （CR） and non-carcinogenic hazard quotient （HQ） of the contaminated soil reach 9.59×10^-5 and 15.46, respectively, exceeding the acceptable level of 10^5 and 1, posing severe health hazards to the residents at the site. KEY WORDS： contaminated site, health risk, soil, organic contamination.
Bibliography:Health risks assessment due to exposure to organic contaminated soil at an oil refinery out of service is conducted in this study by integrating health risk methods of U.S. EPA （United States Environmental Protection Agency）, ASTM （American Society for Testing and Materials） and VROM （Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in Netherlands）, with the localized parameters using Chinese demographic characteristics and site features. The monitoring results show that the concentration of benzene, benzo（a）pyrene and benzo（a）anthracene in the soil of the site all exceed their risk screening values, respectively, with pollutants concentrated in soil 0.1-5.5 m beneath the surface. To estimate health risks of the site with the 95% upper confidence limit of the pollution, we focus on three major exposure pathways, namely, oral ingestion, dermal contact and breath inhalation, which indicates carcinogenic risk （CR） and non-carcinogenic hazard quotient （HQ） of the contaminated soil reach 9.59×10^-5 and 15.46, respectively, exceeding the acceptable level of 10^5 and 1, posing severe health hazards to the residents at the site. KEY WORDS： contaminated site, health risk, soil, organic contamination.
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contaminated site, health risk, soil, organic contamination.
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ISSN:1674-487X
1867-111X
DOI:10.1007/s12583-012-0237-6