PCBs monitoring in air samples of Bahia Blanca city and southwest of Buenos Aires province

ÁLVAREZ, MÓNICA; KUKUčKA, PETR; POZO, KARLA; TOMBESI, NORMA; PRYBILOVA, PETRA; ARIAS, ANDRÉS; KLÁNOVÁ, JANA; ONDřEJ, AUDY

Tandil, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jornada; II Jornadas Internacionales de Ambiente y IV Jornadas Nacionales de Ambiente 2018; 2018

Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

AbstractWith the purpose of evaluating PCBs concentration in air and their space-temporal distribution, a monitoring was carried out in the city of Bahía Blanca and the southwest region of Buenos Aires, using passive air samplers. The study was carried out in different sampling sites related to various activities and / or land use, and included 4 successive sampling periods carried out from the end of 2014 until the beginning of 2016. The obtained results showed the presence ofPCBs in air samples of the study area, exhibiting space-temporal variations according to the activities and / or land use of the surroundings of each site, as well as the climatic variations typical of each sampling period.