Is One Village able to Produce as Many Dioxins as a Big Waste Incineration Plant?
Three large waste incineration plants incinerated c. 360 thousand tons of waste in 2009, during which time they emitted c. 40 mg of PCDD/F expressed as TEQ in flue gasses into the air. If heated by solid fuels only (c. 4 thousand tons of fuel), one average (hypothetical) village with two thousand in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
2011-06-01
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| Series: | Transactions of the VSB : Technical University of Ostrava |
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| Online Access: | http://transactions.fs.vsb.cz/2011-1/1844_Horak.pdf |
| Summary: | Three large waste incineration plants incinerated c. 360 thousand tons of waste in 2009, during which time they emitted c. 40 mg of PCDD/F expressed as TEQ in flue gasses into the air. If heated by solid fuels only (c. 4 thousand tons of fuel), one average (hypothetical) village with two thousand inhabitants would emit c. 2 to 60 mg of PCDD/F expressed as TEQ in flue gasses into the air during the heating season. We can state that in term of PCDD/F emissions into the air, one village being heated with solid fuels has a potential to produce similar (in some cases even higher) amount of diox-ins as a large waste incineration plant. |
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| ISSN: | 1210-0471 1804-0993 |