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J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol

Title:		Assessing total exposures to gasoline vapor using the source exposure model
Author(s):		Edgerton SA; Shah JJ;
Address:		"Edgerton Environmental, Honolulu, Hawaii"
Journal Title:		J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol
Year:		1992
Volume:		2
Issue:		1
Page Number:		109 - 115
DOI:
ISSN/ISBN:		1053-4245 (Print) 1053-4245 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Recent developments in source apportionment modeling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) include receptor modeling (RM) applications to 'total' (indoor and outdoor) exposure assessment for source of VOC. Source fingerprints are available for major VOC sources such as gasoline vapor, automobile exhaust, refinery emissions, cleaning solvent vapors, printing inks, and waste-water treatment facilities. The relative proportion of each VOC species in the source fingerprint enables the RM method, through a least squares analysis, to identify each source's presence and quantify its contribution to ambient air concentrations. Sampling periods and locations may be selected to represent microenvironmental exposures. Receptor modeling has direct applicability to determining the relative contribution of gasoline vapors to VOC exposures in the general population"
Keywords:		"Air Pollution/analysis/economics Benzene/analysis Environmental Exposure/*analysis Environmental Monitoring Gases/*analysis Gasoline/*analysis Humans Information Systems Models, Statistical;"
Notes:		"MedlineEdgerton, S A Shah, J J eng England 1992/01/01 J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 1992 Jan-Mar; 2(1):109-15"