TY - JOUR
T1 - Polychlorodibenzodioxins and polychlorodibenzofurans in the dust of the ambient atmosphere in a municipal waste incinerator
AU - Tong, H. Y.
AU - Arghestani, S.
AU - Gross, M. L.
AU - Karasek, F. W.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are grateful to Dr. A. Jebens of Central Institute for Research, Oslo, Norway, for supplying the dust sample and related work was supported by Midwest Center for Mass Spectrometry CHE-8620177).
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - A dust sample collected from the ambient atmosphere of a municipal incineration plant over a six-day period was analyzed for PCDD and PCDFs. The concentrations of each PCDD and PCDF congener groups as well as most of individual 2,3,7,8-substituted isomers in the sample were quantified by using HRGC/HRMS. The results show that the ambient atmosphere of a municipal incinerator can be heavily contaminated by PCDD and PCDFs including most of the 2,3,7,8-substituted isomers by means of fly ash and possibly other incineration products. These results indicate that a risk exists of exposing municipal incinerator workers to PCDD and PCDFs.
AB - A dust sample collected from the ambient atmosphere of a municipal incineration plant over a six-day period was analyzed for PCDD and PCDFs. The concentrations of each PCDD and PCDF congener groups as well as most of individual 2,3,7,8-substituted isomers in the sample were quantified by using HRGC/HRMS. The results show that the ambient atmosphere of a municipal incinerator can be heavily contaminated by PCDD and PCDFs including most of the 2,3,7,8-substituted isomers by means of fly ash and possibly other incineration products. These results indicate that a risk exists of exposing municipal incinerator workers to PCDD and PCDFs.
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U2 - 10.1016/0045-6535(89)90169-0
DO - 10.1016/0045-6535(89)90169-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024308143
SN - 0045-6535
VL - 18
SP - 577
EP - 584
JO - Chemosphere
JF - Chemosphere
IS - 1-6
ER -