Air quality in the city of Baghdad in 2010

Abstract

For cleaner air and unpolluted continue assessment study air pollution the city of
Baghdad by measuring the concentrations of air pollutants, which included TSP, Pb, where
the adoption of three stations (Andalus Square, Jadiriya, Allawi) are distributed in the city of
Baghdad in order to compare the concentrations of these pollutants with previous studies.
Study pointed out that the city's air contaminant, especially in minutes outstanding after
deducting the amount of atmospheric dust thick mechanism city this year where the highest
concentration of minutes outstanding (9895) micrograms / m 3 at the station Alawi and lower
concentration of 157 micrograms / m 3 at the station Alawi and this was higher than the
determinants National (350) micrograms / m 3 and global amounting to 150 micrograms / m 3
for a period of exposure (24 hours and one hour, respectively).The lower concentration (0.04)
mcg / m 3 in Jadriya station. Summarizing the study, said the city's air pollutant and is due to
increased traffic congestion and fuel sarong and large quantities of fuel consumed in the
production of electric power stations and to divorced laboratories and factories governmental
organizations and the private sector deployed in the city.