PCDD/Fs atmospheric deposition fluxes and soil contamination close to a municipal solid waste incinerator

Chemosphere

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1366-1373

  Vassura, Ivano ^a   Passarini, Fabrizio ^a   Ferroni, Laura ^a   Bernardi, Elena ^a   Morselli, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Atmospheric fallout; Bulk deposition; Monitoring; PCDD Fs; Stack emissions

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONTAMINATION; DEPOSITION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MONITORING; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REFUSE INCINERATORS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WASTE INCINERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC FALLOUT; BULK DEPOSITIONS; CHLORINATED CONGENERS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; PCDD/FS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; STACK EMISSIONS;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; FALLOUT; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTION; SUBURBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE SOIL;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79955606547     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.02.072     Document Type: Article

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