Emission factors and importance of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PCNs, PAHs and PM 10 from the domestic burning of coal and wood in the U.K.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1436-1447

  Lee, Robert G M ^a   Coleman, Peter ^b   Jones, Joanne L ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^a   Lohmann, Rainer ^a,c,d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUELS; HEATING; IMPURITIES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PROMETHIUM;

DOMESTIC BURNING; EMISSIONS FACTORS (EF); POLYCHLORINATED NAPTHALENES (PCN); SOLID FUELS;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BIOMASS BURNING; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PCB; PCDD;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; COAL MINING; COMBUSTION; HEATING; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MOISTURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIMULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZOFURANS; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREAT BRITAIN; INCINERATION; NAPHTHALENES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WOOD;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15244343473     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048745i     Document Type: Article

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