Health risk assessment of air emissions from a municipal solid waste incineration plant - A case study

Waste Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 885-895

  Cangialosi, Federico ^a   Intini, Gianluca ^a   Liberti, Lorenzo ^a   Notarnicola, Michele ^a   Stellacci, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARCINOGENS; EMISSION CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE INCINERATION;

AIR EMISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODEL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

SOLID WASTES;

CADMIUM; FURAN DERIVATIVE; LEAD; MERCURY; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

AIR POLLUTION; CARCINOGENS; EMISSION CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID WASTES; WASTE INCINERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; HEALTH RISK; INCINERATION; MORTALITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CASE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; INCINERATION; ITALY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TARANTO;

EID: 39749184131     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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