Table 1. Estimated benzo [a] pyrene emission in the United States [2]. The data characterize the situation in the late sixties
Source |
Tons/year | ||
Transportation souręes . Gasoline-powered | |||
Automobiles |
10 | ||
Trucks |
12 | ||
Diesel-fuel-powered | |||
Jrucks and buses . |
0.4 | ||
22 |
«2% | ||
Heat and power generation sóurces | |||
Coal | |||
Hand-stoked residential furnaces |
420 . | ||
Intermediate units |
10 | ||
Coal-fired steam power plants |
1 | ||
Oil | |||
Low-pressure air-atomized and others |
2- | ||
Gas |
2- | ||
Wood |
40 | ||
475 |
& 38% | ||
Refuse buming | |||
Enclosed incineration |
33 | ||
Open buming | |||
Forest and agricultural |
140 | ||
: Vehicle disposal |
50 | ||
Coąl refuse Fires |
340 | ||
563 |
& 45% | ||
Industrial plants | |||
Cracking units |
6 | ||
Asphalt air-blowihg |
<1 | ||
Coke production |
192 | ||
198 |
A16% | ||
1,260 tons/year |
Fig. 15. Metabolic activation of benzo[a]pyrene to the “ultimate carcinogen