PMID- 22542082
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120927
LR  - 20161125
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 88
IP  - 7
DP  - 2012 Aug
TI  - Combined approaches to determine the impact of wood fire on PCDD/F and PCB 
      contamination of the environment: a case study.
PG  - 806-12
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.086 [doi]
AB  - Fires might be the source of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as 
      dioxins, furans (PCDD/Fs) and/or polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in the environment. 
      In the perspective of defining legal responsibilities a thorough characterization 
      of the impact of such an event should be carried out. However, such 
      characterization is not easy as the environment integrates both local and diffuse 
      sources of such molecules. Thus, a combined approach, which includes gathering 
      field surveys, modeling and laboratory experiments, should be conducted. The 
      objective of this work is to illustrate different approaches to give sufficient 
      insight to determine the actual impact of wood fire on the environment. The work 
      was carried out at the vicinity of a burnt down parcel. The fired material was a 
      mixture of wood and PCB-contaminated soils as the site was a former 
      pyralene-disposal site. Modeling, soil and lichen sampling and experimental 
      combustion were carried out to delineate the contamination for each chemical and 
      to define the area within the fire that was responsible for the environmental 
      contamination. Concentrations of PCDD/F and PCBs were very high on the burnt 
      plot. The combined approach determined that the furans were the predominant 
      compounds in the smoke emitted by the fire. Based on this tracer, it was possible 
      to demonstrate that in terms of environmental contamination of PCDD/F, the impact 
      of the fire was restricted to a 2km radius from the burnt down plot. For PCBs, no 
      specific tracer was identified. In this case, the delineation of the impact could 
      only be empirical, based on the total concentration of the chemicals.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Denys, Sebastien
AU  - Denys S
AD  - INERIS, Parc Technologique ALATA, BP 2, F-60550 Verneuil en Halatte, France. 
      sebastien.denys@anses.fr
FAU - Gombert, Dominique
AU  - Gombert D
FAU - Tack, Karine
AU  - Tack K
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20120426
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Geography
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/*analogs & derivatives/analysis
MH  - Soil Pollutants/analysis
MH  - *Wood
EDAT- 2012/05/01 06:00
MHDA- 2012/09/28 06:00
CRDT- 2012/05/01 06:00
PHST- 2011/01/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/03/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/03/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/05/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/05/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/28 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0045-6535(12)00466-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.086 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2012 Aug;88(7):806-12. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.086. Epub 
      2012 Apr 26.