PCDD/Fs and PCBs in Soot Dust, Fume and Contaminated Air with Burning E-Wastes

Author

Zhu, Xiuhua ; Pfister, Gerd ; Henkelmann, Bernhard ; Kotalik, Jarmila ; Fiedler, Stefan ; Schramm, Karl-Werner

Author_Institution

Sch. of Environ. & Chem. Eng., Dalian Jiaotong Univ., Dalian

fYear

2008

Firstpage

3896

Lastpage

3898

Abstract

PCDD/Fs (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans) and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in soot dust, fume and contaminated air with burning plastic floor and electronic scrap (E-wastes) were sampled employing semi permeable membrane devices (SPMDs). It was found that the emitted PCDFs were dominant compared to PCDDs collected from samples. However the PCDD/Fs and PCBs congener profiles were different between soot dust, fume sample and contaminated air sample. The total amounts of PCBs were much higher than that of PCDD/Fs, but the contribution of them to the WHO-TEQ was less than that of PCDD/Fs. The total amounts PCDD/Fs, PCBs and WHO-TEQ is quite high in soot dust, fume sample than that in contaminated air sample.

Keywords

air pollution; combustion; dust; organic compounds; waste; E-waste burning; contaminated air; electronic scrap; fume; plastic floor; polychlorinated biphenyls; polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins; polychlorinated dibenzofurans; semipermeable membrane devices; soot dust; Biomembranes; Chemical engineering; Chemistry; Combustion; Electronics industry; Fires; Plastics; Sampling methods; Surface cleaning; Surface contamination;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1747-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1748-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2008.475

Filename

4535355