PMID- 20022623
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100401
LR  - 20100129
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 78
IP  - 6
DP  - 2010 Feb
TI  - Mass balance for POPs in hazardous and municipal solid waste incinerators.
PG  - 701-8
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.11.036 [doi]
AB  - The amount of different persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the input of 
      waste incinerators was compared to that in the output. Three cases were 
      considered: a rotary kiln incinerating hazardous waste, a grate furnace 
      incinerating municipal solid waste (MSW) and the same grate furnace 
      co-incinerating plastics of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) 
      and automotive shredder residue (ASR) with MSW. The mass balance for PCBs in the 
      rotary kiln indicates that these POPs are destroyed effectively during 
      incineration. The grate furnace can be a sink or source of PCDD/Fs and PCBs 
      depending on the concentrations in the incinerated waste. In order to compare the 
      total amount of POPs in input and output, a methodology was developed whereby the 
      amount of POPs was weighed according to minimal risk doses (MRDs) or cancer 
      potency factors. For both incinerators the PCDD/Fs, PCBs and polyaromatic 
      hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the main contributors to total weighed POP output. In 
      MSW, the PCDD/Fs, PBDD/Fs and polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) are the main 
      contributors to the weighed POP input. The ratios of the weighed POP-input over 
      -output clearly indicate that the rotary kiln incinerating hazardous waste is a 
      weighed POP sink. The grate furnace incinerating MSW is a weighed POP sink or 
      source depending on the POP-concentrations in the waste, but the difference 
      between output and input is rather limited. When e.g. ASR and plastics of WEEE, 
      containing high concentrations of PBDEs and PCBs, are co-incinerated in the grate 
      furnace, it is clearly a weighed POP sink.
CI  - Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Van Caneghem, J
AU  - Van Caneghem J
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Leuven, De Croylaan 46, 3001 
      Heverlee, Belgium. jo.vancaneghem@cit.kuleuven.be
FAU - Block, C
AU  - Block C
FAU - Van Brecht, A
AU  - Van Brecht A
FAU - Wauters, G
AU  - Wauters G
FAU - Vandecasteele, C
AU  - Vandecasteele C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20091222
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hazardous Waste)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
SB  - IM
MH  - Electrical Equipment and Supplies
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Hazardous Waste/*analysis
MH  - Incineration/*instrumentation
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis
MH  - Plastics
EDAT- 2009/12/22 06:00
MHDA- 2010/04/02 06:00
CRDT- 2009/12/22 06:00
PHST- 2009/03/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/11/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2009/11/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/12/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/12/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/04/02 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0045-6535(09)01393-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.11.036 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2010 Feb;78(6):701-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.11.036. Epub 
      2009 Dec 22.