Cigarette smoke or exhaust gas from waste incineration – where are more dioxins?

Modern Technologies to Reduce Emissions of Dioxins and Furans from Waste Incineration

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF) are fonned unintentionally as bypro ducts of waste combustion and many other thelmal industrial processes. Today PCDDIPCDF is known as one of the most toxic groups of organic substances. Furthelmore, they are perceived to be carcinogenic. Although many questions about the toxicological effects of PCDDIPCDF are sti...

Waste Incineration:

This study examines the development of Energy from Waste incineration within the waste strategies of local authorities in England. With the development of Waste Strategy 2000 for England, produced by DEFRA, (then DETR) and the inclusion of statutory recovery targets for the recovery of energy from waste, along with the implementation of the Landfill Directive (99/31/EC), there created a need fo...

Isomer pattern and elimination of dioxins in workers exposed at a municipal waste incineration plant

The aim of this study was to clarify patterns of serum concentrations of dioxins in the employees of a waste incineration plant and to estimate elimination rates and half-lives of serum dioxin isomers, and the maximum serum concentrations of dioxin isomers at the time of plant shutdown. Sixteen subjects participating 3 times or more in annual health examinations during an 8-yr period from 2000 ...

Resource recovery from waste incineration residues

incineration of nuclear waste

Since the end of 1989, ECN renewed its interest in incineration of transuranium elements and fission products. With respect to the transmutation of minor actinides ECN was requested by the clutch government to start a study of a scenario based upon thermal reactors and to work on incineration by means of new fast reactor designs. There are also plans for a study on the possible use of accelerat...