Vanadium concentrations in settled outdoor dust particles

Abstract

The mass deposition rate was calculated for each sampling plate over the 30-days collection periods. The deposition rates for the six places in Adapazari ranged from 20.5 to 84.9 mu g/cm(2)/day. The arithmetic mean deposition rate for all places was 45.3 mu g/cm(2)/day. Total dust deposition and vanadium loadings typically increased in magnitude according to the area order: Kampus > Serdivan > Cark C. > Ozanlar > Erenler > Yesiltepe and Kampus > Serdivan > Cark C. > Ozanlar > Erenler > Yesiltepe, respectively. The results suggested that vanadium may be useful for assessing the level of environmental pollution.