Assessing vanadium and arsenic exposure of people living near a petrochemical complex with two-stage dispersion models

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 98-107

  Chio, Chia Pin ^a   Yuan, Tzu Hsuen ^a   Shie, Ruei Hao ^a,b   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Industrial source complex (ISC); Naphtha cracking; Petrochemicals processing; Pollution; Vanadium

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COAL; COAL FUELED FURNACES; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; NAPHTHAS; PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS; PETROCHEMICALS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; POLLUTION; VANADIUM; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISPERSION MODELING; INDUSTRIAL SOURCE COMPLEXES; MODEL BASED APPROACH; PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX; STRONG CORRELATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; VANADIUM; AIR POLLUTANT; PETROLEUM;

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; DISPERSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; VANADIUM;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OIL INDUSTRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; TWO STAGE DISPERSION MODEL; ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

TAIWAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PETROLEUM; VANADIUM;

EID: 84895520241     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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