5TH INTERNATIONAL ACHARAKA CONGRESS ON LIFE, ENGINEERING, AND APPLIED SCIENCES
INVESTIGATION OF CORRELATION CHANGES WITH METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS BY DETERMINING ATMOSPHERIC TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLE MATTER (TSP) IN A SEMI-URBAN AREA
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This study, it was aimed to determine the amounts (µg m-3) of atmospheric coarse mode particles (Total Suspended Particles: PM10, PM2.5, PM1 ) that may be present in a semi-urban region and to investigate their interactions with meteorological factors such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. For these purposes, studies were carried out in three parts: sampling, laboratory, and concentration determination. The sampling study was carried out daily during the winter season for a total of 1 month. In the study, excluding the 2-day device malfunction, a total of 29 (∑n PMTSP: 29) particle phase TSP samples were taken. At the same time, Techora Thermo Andersen, GPS 11 model high volume air sampler (HVAS) was used for the first time in this region and this subject. HVAS used in sampling had approximately 300 m3 of air vacuumed daily. In the sampling, glass fiber filters (GFF) were used to retain TSPs in HVAS. During the sampling studies, daily dirty filters were replaced with clean ones, and the dirty filters were transported to the laboratory environment with appropriate storage methods and kept in appropriate storage containers. After the sampling studies were completed, the second method, laboratory studies, was carried out. At this stage, the first weighings of clean GFFs and contaminated GFFs were weighed one by one on a precision balance, and then their mass ratios (µg) were determined and reported using gravimetric methods. Then, the final amounts of TSPs were determined by proportioning the mass ratios of each day to the daily air volume passing through the HVAS (µg m-3). According to the data obtained, the average amount of TSP in the winter season of the semi-urban region was determined as 42 ± 38 µg m-3 in the particle phase. In addition, correlation graphs of temperature, precipitation, and wind speed, which are meteorological factors, were drawn on the results obtained and their possible interactions with each other were tried to be determined. As a result, in this study, the presence of TSP was determined and it was observed that meteorological factors did not have a serious interaction with these mass assets of TSP. On the other hand, it has been understood that the pollution amounts in this region in terms of TSP are lower than in the literature.
