Open burning of household waste: Effect of experimental condition on combustion quality and emission of PCDD, PCDF and PCB
| Autor: | Gustavo Solorzano-Ochoa, Pablo Maiz-Larralde, Heidelore Fiedler, Dennis Tabor, Brian K. Gullett, Barbara Wyrzykowska-Ceradini, Todd Abel, Abderrahmane Touati, David A. de la Rosa, William F. Carroll |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Household waste
Air Pollutants Family Characteristics Environmental Engineering Municipal solid waste Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins Waste management Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental engineering General Medicine General Chemistry Incineration Combustion Pollution Polychlorinated Biphenyls Pcdd pcdf Refuse Disposal Environmental Chemistry Quality (business) media_common Waste disposal Benzofurans |
| Zdroj: | Chemosphere. 87(9) |
| ISSN: | 1879-1298 |
| Popis: | Open burning for waste disposal is, in many countries, the dominant source of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, dibenzofurans and biphenyls (PCDD/PCDF/PCB) release to the environment. To generate emission factors for open burning, experimental pile burns of about 100 kg of household waste were conducted with emissions sampling. From these experiments and others conducted by the same authors it is found that less compaction of waste or active mixing during the fire--"stirring"--promotes better combustion (as evidenced by lower CO/CO(2) ratio) and reduces emissions of PCDD/PCDF/PCB; an intuitive but previously undemonstrated result. These experiments also support previous results suggesting PCDD/PCDF/PCB generation in open burning - while still highly variable - tends to be greater in the later (smoldering) phases of burning when the CO/CO(2) ratio increases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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