Contribution of landfill fires to air pollution - An assessment methodology.

Autor: Bihałowicz JS; The Main School of Fire Service, 52/54 Słowackiego Street, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: jbihalowicz@sgsp.edu.pl., Rogula-Kozłowska W; The Main School of Fire Service, 52/54 Słowackiego Street, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland., Krasuski A; The Main School of Fire Service, 52/54 Słowackiego Street, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Waste management (New York, N.Y.) [Waste Manag] 2021 Apr 15; Vol. 125, pp. 182-191. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.02.046
Abstrakt: We investigated the contribution of waste fires to air pollution. The annual emission of pollutants (CO, NO x , PM 10 , SO 2 ) and greenhouse gases (CH 4 , CO 2 ) were evaluated. The prediction of emissions is based on statistical data from 79 large fires that took place in Poland in 2018. We analyzed the spatial distribution of these fires along with the expected emission factor. The predicted emissions from all large waste fires was in total: 2.05 ± 0.10Gg of CH 4 , 19.60 ± 0.90Gg of CO, 196 ± 13Gg of CO 2 , 0.963 ± 0.047Gg of NO x , 5.26 ± 0.58Gg of PM 10 , and 0.72 ± 0.12Gg of SO 2 . For the evaluation of the consequences, we used the number of people exposed to PM 10 emitted in one very big fire. Almost 6.5 million people were exposed to an additional 1-hour average concentration of PM 10 higher than 10 μg/m 3 and over 360 thousand were exposed to a concentration higher than 100 μg/m 3 .
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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