Atmospheric emission of polychlorinated biphenyls from multiple industrial thermal processes

Chemosphere

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2453-2460

  Liu, Guorui ^a   Zheng, Minghui ^a   Cai, Mingwei ^a   Nie, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Liu, Wenbin ^a   Du, Bing ^a,b   Dong, Shujun ^a   Hu, Jicheng ^a   Xiao, Ke ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b National Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurements   (China)

Author keywords

Emission factors; Emission inventory; Emission profiles; Industrial thermal processes; Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; ZINC SMELTING;

EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSION INVENTORIES; EMISSION PROFILE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); THERMAL PROCESS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INDUSTRIAL THERMAL PROCESS; MEASUREMENT; PROCESS MODEL; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872789306     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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