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Table 3 National emissions inventory of single-ring aromatic hydrocarbons

From: Public health impacts of secondary particulate formation from aromatic hydrocarbons in gasoline

Source

Aromatic VOC (ton/yr)

% of total

Gasoline

2,491,313

69%

Solvent usage

518,334

14%

Diesel

25,436

1%

Other

573,679

16%

Total

3,608,762

100%

  1. Note:
  2. This information was obtained by combining VOC emissions from the 2005 National Emissions Inventory with speciation profiles from the SPECIATE database. See Additional file 2: Table S2.