Risk Assessment as a Decision-Making Tool for Treatment of Emissions at a New Aluminum Smelter in Iceland: 2. Human Health Risk Assessment
| Autor: | Randy A. O'Boyle, Rhonda S. Kaetzel, Pieter N. Booth, Lisa J. Yost |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 15:442-468 |
| ISSN: | 1549-7860 1080-7039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10807030902892257 |
| Popis: | Alcoa recently constructed the Fjarðaal aluminum smelter in Reyðarfjorður, East Iceland. The smelter is designed to produce a maximum of 346,000 metric tons per year of aluminum. A risk assessment was conducted to evaluate the differential human health risk related to estimated potential air emissions from the planned Fjarðaal smelter with and without seawater scrubbers. Air-dispersion modeling results provided for particulate matter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen fluoride (HF), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were compared to ambient air standards or air quality guidelines from Norway, Iceland, or European directives and from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Risk estimates were calculated for PAHs. Modeled air estimates were mapped geospatially, to identify potential receptors, including onsite outdoor worker, seagoing worker, hypothetical fence-line resident, future hypothetical resident, closest current resident, residents in neighboring villages, closest farmer, a... |
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