Tracking hazardous air pollutants from a refinery fire by applying on-line and off-line air monitoring and back trajectory modeling

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 261, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-82

  Shie, Ruei Hao ^a,b   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accident; Fire; Hazardous air pollutants; Petrochemical

Indexed keywords

1 ,2-DICHLOROETHANES; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; FLAME IONIZATION DETECTORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS; PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX; REGULATORY AUTHORITIES; VINYL CHLORIDE MONOMERS;

ACCIDENTS; DICHLOROMETHANE; FIRES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HYDROCARBONS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PETROCHEMICALS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; POLLUTION DETECTION; REFINING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DICHLOROMETHANE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ACCIDENT; AIR SAMPLING; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FIRE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING SYSTEM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; REFINING INDUSTRY; TRACKING;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; COMMUNITY; DISPERSION; FIRE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OIL INDUSTRY;

ACCIDENT; FIRE; HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS; PETROCHEMICAL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FIRES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PETROLEUM; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TAIWAN;

EID: 84880975761     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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