Table 3: Average concentration and standard deviations of PAHs detected at the three experimental sites. The table included also the mean level of PAH totals (sum of the concentrations of each PAH analysed).

Chemical compound Burgesi Cavallino Nardò
ng/m3 Average Std. dev. Average Std. dev. Average Std. dev.
Acenaphthylene (ACY) 21.79 23.8 58.96 80.2 36.39 31.8
Acenaphthene (ACE) 39.76 34.8 218.61 282.5 24.05 23.0
Fluorene (FL) 0.16 0.2 0.20 0.1 0.33 0.3
Phenanthrene (PHE) 0.44 0.3 0.34 0.2 0.30 0.1
Anthracene (ANT) 2.49 4.3 0.04 0.04 2.70 4.5
Fluoranthene (FLT) 0.17 0.3 < 0.005 0.002 0.41 0.7
Pyrene (PYR) 0.15 0.3 < 0.005 0.001 0.36 0.6
Benzo(a)anthracene+ Chrysene (BaA+CHR) 0.07 0.1 18.91 28.2 13.40 22.9
Benzo(b+k)fluoranthene (B(b+k)F) 0.16 0.2 0.07 0.1 0.39 0.6
Indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene (IcdP) 0.01 0.006 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02
Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene (dahA) 0.07 0.1 0.32 0.4 0.20 0.3
Benzo(ghi)perylene (BghiP) 0.84 1.4 4.98 6.4 3.22 5.5
Dibenzo(al+ai)pyrene 0.96 1.3 5.64 7.4 3.96 6.1
Dibenzo(ae)pyrene 0.005 0.003 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.004
Dibenzo(ah)pyrene 0.04 0.1 11.70 17.5 8.23 14.2
Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) 1.5 1.7 5.0 6.2 0.7 0.6
PAH totals 69.5 54.9 324.9 428.5 94.7 97.1