Table 2 Concentrations of outdoor air pollutants in villages of Xuanwei and Fuyuan by coal deposit.

From: Characterization of outdoor air pollution from solid fuel combustion in Xuanwei and Fuyuan, a rural region of China

Coal deposit in region

PM2.5 (µg/m3)

BaP (ng/m3)

NAP (ng/m3)

SO2

NO2 (µg/m3)

PMabs (10–5/m)

N

AMa

GM (GSD)b

N

AM

GM (GSD)

N

AM

GM (GSD)

N

%Detect

N

AM

GM (GSD)

N

AM

GM (GSD)

Overall

85

53.1

45.3 (1.8)

51

11.1

9.7 (1.7)

58

1,045.8

707.7 (2.4)

88

26.1

87

97.6

91.5 (1.4)

66

5.5

5.0 (1.6)

Xuanwei

41

58.1

51.6 (1.7)

28

12.1

10.5 (1.7)

34

1,078.8

729.9 (2.3)

44

34.8

44

97.5

93.2 (1.4)

34

6.6

6.1 (1.6)

1, 2, 4, 7, 8%

20

56.8

47.4 (1.8)

14

12.7

10.8 (1.8)

20

1,058.4

813.6 (2.2)

22

18.2

22

101.7

97.8 (1.3)

18

6.4

5.8 (1.7)c

9%

4

70.1

67.9 (1.3)

4

13.7

12.0 (1.8)

4

629.0

620.0 (1.2)

4

25.0

4

118.5

116.8 (1.2)

4

7.2

6.9 (1.4)c

10%

4

59.1

57.9 (1.3)

2

19.8

19.8 (1.0)

0

4

50.0

4

113.0

107.5 (1.4)

4

7.9

7.7 (1.3)c

LS*,%

4

49.2

47.8 (1.3)

3

6.2

6.1 (1.2)

4

2,282.6

682.8 (5.3)

4

25.0

4

85.1

83.7 (1.2)

2

5.9

5.8 (1.2)

Fuyuan

44

48.5

40.2 (2.0)

23

9.9

8.9 (1.6)

24

999.2

677.5 (2.6)

44

34.1

43

97.7

89.7 (1.5)

32

4.2

4.0 (1.4)

12, 13, 14, 38%

10

58.8

50.8 (1.8)

8

9.2

8.7 (1.5)

8

1,272.8

1,093.9 (1.9)

10

20.0

9

88.9

87.6 (1.2)

4

7.2

6.6 (1.6)c

16, 17, 19%

22

48.5

42.1 (1.8)

13

11.0

10.1 (1.6)

9

1,276.0

827.1 (3.2)

22

27.3

22

97.5

92.0 (1.5)

18

4.9

4.7 (1.3)

20, 27**,%

21

48.3

39.0 (2.2)

7

8.4

7.4(1.7)

13

475.2

413.0 (1.7)

22

31.8

22

92.8

81.7 (1.6)

16

3.5

3.3 (1.4)

  1. aAM arithmetic mean; bGM geometric mean, GSD geometric standard deviation; cp < 0.05 when compared with deposit 20, 27 deposits via Tukey HSD test. *LS is located in deposit 27 in Xuanwei; **Deposit 27 is located in Xuanwei; %Deposit numbers refer to the map locations of each coal source shown in Fig. 1. NAP naphthalene, BaP Benzo(a)pyrene, SO2 sulfur dioxide, NO2 nitrogen dioxide; p < 0.05 among coal deposits via ANOVA test, data were published in reference15.