Profile analysis of organic micropollutants in the environment of a coal burning area, NW Greece

Chemosphere

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 595-604

  Voutsa, D ^a   Terzi, H ^a   Muller, L ^b   Samara, C ^a   Kouimtzis, Th ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Mess u Prufstelle Technicher U   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air; Fly ash; PAHs; PCDD Fs soil; TSP

Indexed keywords

EXHAUST GASES; FLY ASH; POLLUTION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOILS; SOOT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MATRICES; MICROPOLLUTANTS;

COAL;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; COAL; DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; FLY ASH; PAH; PCDD; PCDF;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; EXHAUST GAS; FIRE; FLY ASH; GREECE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; SOIL; SOOT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FRAXINUS;

EID: 1542346290     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2003.11.023     Document Type: Article

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