Mechanistic understanding of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the thermal degradation of tires under various oxygen concentration atmospheres

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 12921-12926

  Kwon, Eilhann E ^a,b   Castaldi, Marco J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; BOND SCISSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GASPHASE; MASS LOSS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PARTIAL OXIDATIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS(PAHS); REACTION MECHANISM; STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBER; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL DEGRADATION MECHANISM; THERMAL DEGRADATION RATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC CARBONS; WASTE TIRES;

ADDITION REACTIONS; EFFLUENTS; OXYGEN; STYRENE; TIRES; WASTE INCINERATION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

1,3 BUTADIENE; ISOPRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PAH; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TIRE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; OXIDATION; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BUTADIENES; ELASTOMERS; HEMITERPENES; INCINERATION; LATEX; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; STYRENES; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84870539322     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303852e     Document Type: Article

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