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Uski OJ, Rankin GD, Wingfors H, Magnusson R, Boman C, Muala A, Blomberg A, Bosson J, Sandström T. In vitro toxicity evaluation in A549 cells of diesel particulate matter from two different particle sampling systems and several resuspension media. J Appl Toxicol 2024; 44:1269-1278. [PMID: 38705171 DOI: 10.1002/jat.4616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
Abstract
In urban areas, inhalation of fine particles from combustion sources such as diesel engines causes adverse health effects. For toxicity testing, a substantial amount of particulate matter (PM) is needed. Conventional sampling involves collection of PM onto substrates by filtration or inertial impaction. A major drawback to those methodologies is that the extraction process can modify the collected particles and alter their chemical composition. Moreover, prior to toxicity testing, PM samples need to be resuspended, which can alter the PM sample even further. Lastly, the choice of the resuspension medium may also impact the detected toxicological responses. In this study, we compared the toxicity profile of PM obtained from two alternative sampling systems, using in vitro toxicity assays. One system makes use of condensational growth before collection in water in an impinger - BioSampler (CG-BioSampler), and the other, a Dekati® Gravimetric Impactor (DGI), is based on inertial impaction. In addition, various methods for resuspension of DGI collected PM were compared. Tested endpoints included cytotoxicity, formation of cellular reactive oxygen species, and genotoxicity. The alternative collection and suspension methods affected different toxicological endpoints. The water/dimethyl sulfoxide mixture and cell culture medium resuspended particles, along with the CG-BioSampler sample, produced the strongest responses. The water resuspended sample from the DGI appeared least toxic. CG-BioSampler collected PM caused a clear increased response in apoptotic cell death. We conclude that the CG-BioSampler PM sampler is a promising alternative to inertial impaction sampling.
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- Oskari J Uski
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- CBRN Defence and Security, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden
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- CBRN Defence and Security, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden
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- CBRN Defence and Security, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Vallabani NVS, Gruzieva O, Elihn K, Juárez-Facio AT, Steimer SS, Kuhn J, Silvergren S, Portugal J, Piña B, Olofsson U, Johansson C, Karlsson HL. Toxicity and health effects of ultrafine particles: Towards an understanding of the relative impacts of different transport modes. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 231:116186. [PMID: 37224945 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Exposure to particulate matter (PM) has been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects, but it is still unclear how particles from various transport modes differ in terms of toxicity and associations with different human health outcomes. This literature review aims to summarize toxicological and epidemiological studies of the effect of ultrafine particles (UFPs), also called nanoparticles (NPs, <100 nm), from different transport modes with a focus on vehicle exhaust (particularly comparing diesel and biodiesel) and non-exhaust as well as particles from shipping (harbor), aviation (airport) and rail (mainly subway/underground). The review includes both particles collected in laboratory tests and the field (intense traffic environments or collected close to harbor, airport, and in subway). In addition, epidemiological studies on UFPs are reviewed with special attention to studies aimed at distinguishing the effects of different transport modes. Results from toxicological studies indicate that both fossil and biodiesel NPs show toxic effects. Several in vivo studies show that inhalation of NPs collected in traffic environments not only impacts the lung, but also triggers cardiovascular effects as well as negative impacts on the brain, although few studies compared NPs from different sources. Few studies were found on aviation (airport) NPs, but the available results suggest similar toxic effects as traffic-related particles. There is still little data related to the toxic effects linked to several sources (shipping, road and tire wear, subway NPs), but in vitro results highlighted the role of metals in the toxicity of subway and brake wear particles. Finally, the epidemiological studies emphasized the current limited knowledge of the health impacts of source-specific UFPs related to different transport modes. This review discusses the necessity of future research for a better understanding of the relative potencies of NPs from different transport modes and their use in health risk assessment.
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 11418, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 11418, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Environment and Health Administration, 104 20, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, CSIC, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, CSIC, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Machine Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 11418, Stockholm, Sweden; Environment and Health Administration, 104 20, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Srivastava RK, Nedungadi SV, Akhtar N, Sarangi PK, Subudhi S, Shadangi KP, Govarthanan M. Effective hydrolysis for waste plant biomass impacts sustainable fuel and reduced air pollution generation: A comprehensive review. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 859:160260. [PMID: 36400296 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Among various natural biowastes availability in the environment, agricultural residues showed great impacts. It is due to huge availability and cheap carbon source, creating big challenges for their utility and systematic reduction. Objective of this review is to address the waste biomass availability and huge quantities issues and also put effort to minimize this nutrient load via biotransforming into value-added products. Different wastes (organic/inorganic) generation with their negative issues are due to numbers of developmental and social activities, reported. Currently, various efforts are found for these wastes minimization via generation of different types of value-added products (biogas, bioH2, alcoholic fuel, organic acids and others products) and these wastes in municipal cities are also reported with production of advanced biofuels as promising outcomes. For hydrolysis of complex organic resources including lignocellulosic biomasses, physicochemical, structural or compositional changes are needed that aid in conversion into sugar and organic compounds such as biofuels. So, efficient and effective pretreatment processes selection (physical, biological, chemical or combined one) is critical to achieve these hydrolysis goals and resultant cellulose or hemicellulose components can be accessible by biological catalysis. These can achieve final hydrolysis and fermentative or monomer sugars. And later, synthesis of fuels or value-added products during microbial fermentation or biotransformation processes can be achieved. This review discusses pretreatment techniques for improved hydrolysis for fermentative sugar with emphasis on reduced quantities of toxic compounds (furfural compound) in hydrolyzed biomasses. Minimum deterioration fuel economy also reported with production of different bioproducts including biofuels. Additionally, impacts of toxic products and gasses emission are also discussed with their minimization.
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- Rajesh K Srivastava
- Department of Biotechnology, GITAM School of Technology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Visakhapatnam 530045, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, GITAM School of Technology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Visakhapatnam 530045, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, GITAM School of Technology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Visakhapatnam 530045, India
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- Advanced Biofuels program, The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, South Korea; Department of Biomaterials, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai 600 077, India
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Deng L, Hao C, Luo Y, Yang P, Wu B. Effect of air and exhaust gas dilutions on ultra-fine particulate emissions in different combustion modes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 843:156865. [PMID: 35753470 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2022] [Revised: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The effect of air and exhaust dilution ratios on the characteristics of ultra-fine particulate matter (PM) and combustion process in different combustion modes at low loads were investigated based on experimental and numerical simulation in this study. The combustion modes included partially premixed compression ignition (PPCI), diffusion combustion (DC), and modulated kinetics combustion (MKC). The air and exhaust gas dilution ratio varied from 0 % to 40 % and 0 % to 55 % respectively. Additionally, the effect of dilutions and combustion modes on PM characteristics is precisely analyzed by computational fluid dynamics. The NOx and Soot emission are reduced in PPCI and DC mode of combustion with the increase of air and exhaust gas dilution rate. However, NOx emission is decreases while Soot is increases in MKC mode. The concentration of particulate number increases in case of both PPCI and DC mode and achieved highest value as 3.3 × 107 and 1.4 × 107 N/cc respectively. Although, concentration of particulate number (PN) in MKC mode first starts climbing and after attaining the highest level of 1.3 × 107 N/cc it falls down. PN concentration in PPCI, MKC, and DC modes decreases as the exhaust gas dilution rate increases. The study of nuclear and accumulate mode of PM was performed separately where the diameter of particles is <1000 nm. Under variable air and exhaust gas dilution ratios, the value of PN is always lies between 40 and 90 % in the nuclear mode PM domain for PPCI and DC modes while for MKC mode, the proportion of PN fall under 13-57 % at exhaust gas ratio above 30 %. The proportion of nuclear mode particulate mass in PPCI mode is >10 % while its values is <1 % for DC and MKC modes.
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- Longfei Deng
- State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- China North Engine Research Institute, Tianjin 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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Oxygenated Diesel Fuels and Their Effect on PM Emissions. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12157709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Particulate matter (PM) emitted by diesel engines is one of the most harmful components of exhaust gases, including its carcinogenic effect. Due to the widespread use of diesel engines, the health effects of PM emissions affect millions of people around the world. At the same time, diesel particulate matter is characterized by a very complicated structure and mechanisms of formation compared to other exhaust gas components. It is obvious that PM emissions should be limited by all means. This article focuses on the reduction of PM emissions with the use of oxygenated fuels. The mechanisms of oxygenated fuels influence on the soot formation process in the working process of diesel engines have been discussed. The importance of the chemical structure of oxygenated compounds for the effectiveness of PM emissions reduction was considered. The results of empirical research on the influence on PM emissions of oxygenated fuels containing 12 oxygenates from chemical groups such as glycol ethers, maleates, carbonates and butanol were analyzed. The emissions tests were undertaken on a diesel passenger car over the NEDC and FTP-75 cycles. The results showed a high potential of oxygenated fuels in PM emissions reduction, even at a low oxygenates concentration of 5% v/v; namely, PM emissions were reduced by up to 32%. According to tests results, 1% of oxygen in the fuel resulted in an average reduction of PM emissions by 7% to 10%. In the view of already limited possibilities of modifying conventional parameters of diesel fuels, the use of oxygenated compounds is a promising way to trade on the potential of fuels in PM emissions reduction.
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