Emissions of unintentional persistent organic pollutants from open burning of municipal solid waste from developing countries
► Sound methodology for measuring unintentional POPs was developed. ► Emission factors were derived to support UNEP Dioxin Toolkit. ► Waste composition did not affect emission factors. Open burning of waste is the most significant source of polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCD...
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| Vydáno v: | Chemosphere (Oxford) Ročník 84; číslo 7; s. 994 - 1001 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , , , , , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Kidlington
Elsevier Ltd
01.08.2011
Elsevier |
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| ISSN: | 0045-6535, 1879-1298, 1879-1298 |
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| Shrnutí: | ► Sound methodology for measuring unintentional POPs was developed. ► Emission factors were derived to support UNEP Dioxin Toolkit. ► Waste composition did not affect emission factors.
Open burning of waste is the most significant source of polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) in many national inventories prepared pursuant to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. This is particularly true for developing countries. Emission factors for POPs such as PCDD/PCDF, dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCB) and penta- and hexachlorobenzenes (PeCBz/HCB) from open burning of municipal solid waste in China and Mexico are reported herein. Six different waste sources were studied varying from urban-industrial to semi-urban to rural. For PCDD/PCDF, the emission factors to air ranged from 3.0 to 650ngTEQkg−1waste and for dl-PCB from 0.092 to 54ngTEQkg−1waste. Emission factors for PeCBz (17–1200ngkg−1waste) and HCB (24–1300ngkg−1waste) spanned a wide but similar range. Within the datasets there is no indication of significant waste composition effect on emission factor with the exception of significantly higher Mexico rural samples. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0045-6535 1879-1298 1879-1298 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.04.070 |