Quantitative Analysis of Toxic Compounds Formed from Combustion of Some Plastic Materials and Newspaper

Introduction Our earlier investigations demonstrated that formation of hydrocarbons such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), popychlorophenols (PCPhs) and polychlorobenzenes (PCBzs) and their toxic equivalent quantity (TEQ) with dioxin-free flyash and unburnt hydrocarbon with varied temperatures as well as different hydrochloric acid (HCl) concentrations. The results highlighted that minimum concentration of all the chlorinated aromatics with presence of paraffin powder and absence of dioxin-free fly ash. Furthermore depending upon the temperature and HCl concentration, the formation chemistry varied at considerable manner. There are several reports documented the formation of toxic substances when burning the plastic materials. However, the studies are scarce about formation of HCl, HCN, PCDD/DFs, co-planar PCBs their TEQ, BTX, parent compounds of dibenzodioxin, dibenzofuran, biphenyl and PAHs from various plastic materials. Besides, so far studies reports only the basic theory of formation chemistry, which lacks the formation of nonchlorine compounds.