| Title: | Impacts of vehicle emission on air quality and human health in China |
| Author(s): | Luo Z; Wang Y; Lv Z; He T; Zhao J; Wang Y; Gao F; Zhang Z; Liu H; |
| Address: | "State Key Joint Laboratory of ESPC, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. State Key Joint Laboratory of ESPC, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: liu_env@tsinghua.edu.cn" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152655 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1026 (Electronic) 0048-9697 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The growing of vehicle population aggravates air pollution and threatens human health. In this study, based on the refined whole-process vehicle emission inventory considering volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evaporation emission, the CAMx model was applied to comprehensively quantify the impacts of the vehicle sector on the annual and seasonal concentrations of PM(2.5) and O(3) in China. Also, the health risks caused by long-term exposure to PM(2.5) and O(3) were evaluated. The model results showed that vehicle emission was an important source of severe O(3) pollution in summer, with a contribution of more than 30% in most parts of China, but not an important source of serious PM(2.5) pollution in winter, with a contribution of less than 20% in heavily polluted regions in China. Compared to tailpipe emission, vehicle VOCs evaporation emission led to increases of 25% and 47% to sectoral contribution to PM(2.5) and O(3). Health risk assessment results showed that attributable deaths caused by long-term exposure to PM(2.5) and O(3) were 975,029 and 46,043 in 2018, to which vehicle emission contributed approximately 12.5% and 22.2%, respectively" |
| Keywords: | *Air Pollutants/analysis *Air Pollution/analysis China Environmental Monitoring Humans *Ozone Particulate Matter/analysis Vehicle Emissions/analysis Fine particulate matter Health risk Ozone Source apportionment Vehicle emission; |
| Notes: | "MedlineLuo, Zhenyu Wang, Yue Lv, Zhaofeng He, Tingkun Zhao, Junchao Wang, Yongyue Gao, Fei Zhang, Zhining Liu, Huan eng Netherlands 2021/12/27 Sci Total Environ. 2022 Mar 20; 813:152655. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152655. Epub 2021 Dec 24" |
