Emissions from small-scale burns of simulated deployed U.S. military waste

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10997-11003

  Woodall, Brian D ^a   Yamamoto, Dirk P ^a   Gullett, Brian K ^b   Touati, Abderrahmane ^c  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c ARCADIS US Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; DIOXINS/FURANS; EMISSION FACTORS; MILITARY FORCE; OPEN BURNING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS(PAHS); TESTING FACILITY; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VOLUME REDUCTIONS; WATER BOTTLE;

BOTTLES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLID WASTES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTION;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

CARBON; POLYBROMINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BURNING; MILITARY APPLICATION; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PCDD; PCDF; SOLID WASTE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLUME; WASTE TREATMENT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARMY; ARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLASTIC BOTTLE; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AFGHANISTAN; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BENZOFURANS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCINERATION; IRAQ; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PLASTICS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOLID WASTE; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; UNITED STATES;

AFGHANISTAN; IRAQ;

EID: 84870021616     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3021556     Document Type: Article

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