By optimizing extracting method,heating procedure,chromatographic temperature,19 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in airborne particulate are detected by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry(GC/MS) with quickness and good sensitiveness.

In this work, samples of airborne particulates,vent gas and smog dust during heating and non-heating seasons were collected in the urban and suburban areas of Lanzhou.

A rapid and effective method for detecting benzo(a) pyrene in airborne particulates was developed, in which benzo (a) pyrene was extracted in an one minute step with concentrated sulfuric acid from a cyclohexane extracted solution from the airborne particulates, and then determined with a synchronous fluorescent speetrometry.