Health effects of soy-biodiesel emissions: mutagenicity-emission factors
Autor: | Charly King, Esra Mutlu, Ingeborg M. Kooter, M.I. Gilmour, Sarah H. Warren, David M. DeMarini, Peggy P. Matthews, Andrew D. Kligerman, D. Janek, William P. Linak, Leon Walsh, J. E. Schmid |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis Context (language use) Toxicology complex mixtures Rats sprague dawley Rats Sprague-Dawley Air pollutants Salmonella Animals Vehicle Emissions Air Pollutants Biodiesel Dose-Response Relationship Drug Waste management business.industry food and beverages Particulates Rats Biotechnology Renewable energy Biofuel Biofuels Environmental science Particulate Matter Soybeans business Mutagens |
Zdroj: | Inhalation Toxicology. 27:585-596 |
ISSN: | 1091-7691 0895-8378 |
DOI: | 10.3109/08958378.2015.1080771 |
Popis: | Soy biodiesel is the predominant biodiesel fuel used in the USA, but only a few, frequently conflicting studies have examined the potential health effects of its emissions.We combusted petroleum diesel (B0) and fuels with increasing percentages of soy methyl esters (B20, B50 and B100) and determined the mutagenicity-emission factors expressed as revertants/megajoule of thermal energy consumed (rev/MJ(th)).We combusted each fuel in replicate in a small (4.3-kW) diesel engine without emission controls at a constant load, extracted organics from the particles with dichloromethane, determined the percentage of extractable organic material (EOM), and evaluated these extracts for mutagenicity in 16 strains/S9 combinations of Salmonella.Mutagenic potencies of the EOM did not differ significantly between replicate experiments for B0 and B100 but did for B20 and B50. B0 had the highest rev/MJ(th), and those of B20 and B100 were 50% and ∼85% lower, respectively, in strains that detect mutagenicity due to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitroarenes, aromatic amines or oxidative mutagens. For all strains, the rev/MJ(th) decreased with increasing biodiesel in the fuel. The emission factor for the 16 EPA Priority PAHs correlated strongly (r(2 )= 0.69) with the mutagenicity-emission factor in strain TA100 + S9, which detects PAHs.Under a constant load, soy-biodiesel emissions were 50-85% less mutagenic than those of petroleum diesel. Without additional emission controls, petroleum and biodiesel fuels had mutagenicity-emission factors between those of large utility-scale combustors (e.g. natural gas, coal, or oil) and inefficient open-burning (e.g. residential wood fireplaces). |
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