INAIL - Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro

Attachments

• Final Report of the Expah Project

  The report summarizes all project activities from 01/10/2010 to 30/06/2014. Note: Annexes listed at the end of the Report are available under request at c.gariazzo@inail.it. Please, specify number and/or title of the Annex. (.pdf - 531 kb)

• Report on recommendations for adaptation and mitigation strategies

  The report summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations for adaptation and mitigation strategies identified by the Life+ Expah project to reduce the population exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) (.pdf - 919 kb)

• PAHs environmental and health effects analysis, methodology employed, and its level of portability in other EU areas

  The report deals with the brief description of the methodologies employed in the EXPAH project to estimate PAHs population exposure, health effects, and the level of portability of the methods used (.pdf - 975 kb)

• Action 3.1 Survey of children and elderly people time activity in Rome

  The report describes time activity data for children and elderly population groups, collected to get information of which kind of environments (home, school, car bus, outdoor, etc.) have attended during a weekday and a public holiday. Data has been used as input to the population exposure model. (.pdf - 366 kb)

• Action 3.2.2. Comparison study of PM2.5 chemical composition by using MV and LV samplers

  The document reports results of a preliminary campaign aimed to obtain a data set of the chemical composition of PM2.5 samples collected in indoor and outdoor environments by using different sampling devices (low-volume – LV and medium-volume – MV samplers) and to evaluate their performances (.pdf - 695 kb)

• Action 3.2.3. Ancillary measurements and the Intercomparison Study

  Three PM collections have been made in duplicate, inside the Metro network of Rome, to get preliminary information about the general quality of our analytical approach to measure PAH collected at low-volume conditions. PAH dimensional distribution in PM was also investigated both indoors and outdoors (.pdf - 214 kb)

• Actions 3.2, 3.3. Activities carried out by Cnr-Iia and Inail in the frame of the Expah Project

  The reliability of analytical procedures as well as the homogeneity and comparability of data have be investigated “on the field” through a preliminary 2x7-day campaigns conducted at three living/working buildings. The report encompasses all (very) preliminary actions performed in the frame of the Project (.pdf - 1,54 mb)

• Action 3.2. Instructions, information and remarks for the regular in-field campaigns of the EXPAH Project (Laboratory and in-field activities)

  The report contains a set of recommendations to fulfill in order to obtain reliable results and products from the laboratory tests and in-field experiments to be carried out during the Project. They were derived from the results obtained during the preliminary field campaigns (.pdf - 45,2 kb)

• Action 3.3. Indoor/Outdoor monitoring of PAHs, PM2.5 and its chemical components with ancillary measurements of gaseous toxicants in the frame of the EXPAH Project Short Technical Report

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• Action 3.3. Indoor/Outdoor monitoring of PAHs, PM2.5 and its chemical components with ancillary measurements of gaseous toxicants in the frame of the Expah Project. Extended Technical Report

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• Action 3.4. Meteorological measurements carried out in urban and sub-urban areas of Rome

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• Action 4.1. Collection of raw emission inventories and their upgrading

  In order to develop a complete emission inventory for Rome and it surroundings, it has been necessary to integrate different source of information characterized by diverse scales and space resolution, to identify inconsistencies and integrate them to cover the whole study area (.pdf - 567 kb)

• Action 4.2. Long range transport of PAHs and definition of computational domains for Rome city simulations

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• Actions 4.3, 4.4. Calculation and integration of traffic emissions with the updated Lazio Region inventory. Spatial, temporal and chemical disaggregation of the emission inventory

  A reference Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission data set has been constructed on the basis of emission inventories available at national and international level and of supplementary data collected in the frame of action 4.1 and 4.2 (.pdf - 2,2 mb)

• Action 4.5. Integration of PAHs atmospheric processes within FARM model

  The report describes the Chemical Transport Model (CTM) FARM (Flexible Air quality Regional Model), its upgrade in order to include PAHs transformation processes and an example of the application of the updated version of FARM over the Italian peninsula (.pdf - 0,99 mb)

• Action 4.5. Farm model capability to simulate PM2.5 and PAHs in the base case

  Action 4.5 was aimed at assessing, by means of an Air Quality Modelling System, pollutant concentrations over the study area, for a one-year time period. The report describes the adopted modeling system, the simulation characteristics, meteorological and air quality model results for PM2.5, NO2, O3 and PAHs (.pdf - 2,39 mb)

• Actions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. Infiltration and exposure model with software prototypes

  The report describes the achievements of Actions led by National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), aimed to utilize measurement data from indoor and outdoor environments to develop an infiltration model to quantitatively describe exposure levels in indoor environments originating from outdoors (.pdf - 2,58 mb)

• Actions 5.3, 5.4. Development and application of a methodology to estimate the human PAHs and PM2.5 exposure of children and elderly people living in Rome

  Exposure models have been developed based on exposure calculated from outdoor concentrations provided by the Chemical Transport Model combined with an infiltration model to estimate indoor concentrations and information from time-activity models (.pdf - 3,36 mb)

• Action 5.5. Application of SVMs to estimate PAHs maps in the urban area of Rome

  The Support Vector Machine (SVM) method have been used to forecast atmospheric pollution, trying also to improve the results achieved by the FARM deterministic model (Action 4.5) (.pdf - 888 kb)

• Actions 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.3. Short term and long-term health effects of exposure to PAHs, BaP and PM2.5. Health impact according to the base case and the alternative mitigation scenarios

  The reports describes investigation results about the short-term and long-term association of exposure to PM2.5, total PAHs, and BaP with morbidity and mortality in Rome, Italy (.pdf - 1,20 mb)

• Action 7.1. Evaluation of policy and mitigation scenarios

  Activity carried out to identify possible future emission reduction scenarios is reported. Since high PAHs concentrations were recorded during cold months, special focus was given on measures having possible impact on winter emissions (.pdf - 458 kb)

• Action 7.2. Impact to PAHs and PM2.5 outdoor concentrations and population exposure in the policy and mitigation scenarios

  Future PAHs levels and the related population exposure have been estimated for year 2020, considering a Current Legislation scenario and substitution of biomass with natural gas for house heating, as a further mitigation measure. (.pdf - 1,78 mb)

• Action 8.1. Geographic data handling. Baseline guide for Expah teams

  The report contains reference manual and guidelines to support handling and interoperability of geospatial information in EXPAH data and results (.pdf - 659 kb)

• Action 8.1. Creation of a geo-spatial, time-aware web interface to disseminate Expah results

  The report describes the work carried out under action 8.1: Integration of data and results by means of Gis techniques. It illustrates contents and architecture of the Expah web mapping system (.pdf - 2,33 mb)