Lung cancer risk assessment at receptor site of a waste-to-energy plant

Waste Management

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 207-215

  Scungio, Mauro ^a   Buonanno, Giorgio ^a,b   Stabile, Luca ^a   Ficco, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ELCR; Incinerator; Lung cancer; Risk analysis; Ultrafine particles; Waste treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISEASES; HEAVY METALS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MAPS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REFUSE INCINERATORS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; WASTE TREATMENT; WIND;

CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); ELCR; INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCERS; LUNG CANCER; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXINS/FURANS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; NICKEL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; DIOXIN; HEAVY METAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; INCINERATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHIMNEY HEIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXCESS LIFETIME CANCER RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INCINERATION; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT; WIND; WIND SPEED; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ITALY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCINERATION; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POWER PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84979249253     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.07.027     Document Type: Article

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