AIR QUALITY STUDY BY THE PIXE METHOD AND MOSSES AS BIOINDICATORS

摘要

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the applicability of different atomic and nuclear methods for environmental monitoring. In our work we propose to monitorize the Targoviste town area and neighborhoods, where industrial activity is the main source of pollutants, concerning air pollution, using the mosses biomonitoring technique. The determination, in the samples, of the environmentally important elements like: Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Ni and Zn, was carried out using the PIXE method by means of a 3 MeV proton beam extracted from the TANDEM accelerator at IFIN-HH Magurele, Bucharest. The quality of the chemical analyses will be checked by means of appropriate international certified reference materials. The authors of that project expect to complete the whole study in the DSmbovita county, Romania. The results from this study will be used to establish a correlation between environmental and epidemiological data in the examined area.