Flow analysis of PCDD/Fs for Tarragona Province, Spain: A preliminary inventory

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-94

  Fuster, Gerard ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annual releases; Dioxins; Emission factors; Inventory, PCDD PCDFs; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins and dibenzofurans; Research articles; SFA; Spain; Substance flow analysis (SFA); Tarragona province

Indexed keywords

EMISSION INVENTORY; FLOW PATTERN; INCINERATION; PCDD; PCDF;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA PROVINCE;

EID: 0035021979     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987300     Document Type: Article

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