Abstract The objective of this study is to investigate the concentration of PCDD/DFs and dioxin-like PCBs in a fallow soil ecosystem and to reveal its bioaccumulation mechanism. Soil, earthworm and lesser Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumi) samples were collected in the two fallow rice fields in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The TEQ concentrations of dioxins in soils (organic carbon base) and earthwo...

Dioxins in the combustion gas of municipal solid waste incinerators (MSWIs) are resynthesized when the combustion gas passes from the outlet exaust gas boiler to the outlet gas duct. The objective of the study was to estimate if the suppression of the formation of dioxins depends on the inlet gas temperature and diameter and/or temperature of droplet spray water using an actual incinerator oper...

To evaluate dioxin contamination in retail vegetables, congener analyses of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (Co-PCBs) were performed on sixty varieties of fresh vegetables including cereals and mushrooms, obtained from Japanese supermarkets in 2002. The toxic equivalent quantity (TEQ) levels for dioxins in s...

A method for the degradation of dioxins by white rot fungi was developed. Degradation of a mixture of 10 kinds of tetra- to octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins [PCDDs]) and tetra- to octachlorodibenzofurans (polychlorinated dibenzofurans [PCDFs]), which were chlorinated at 2-, 3-, 7-, and 8-positions of the molecules, by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete sordida YK-6...

*1 Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works *2 Yokohama Research & Development Center, Technical Headquarters It usually takes a few weeks to analyze dioxins concentration in flue gas from MSW incinerators by official method. In order to reduce the required time for analysis, we have developed an on-line measuring equipment for pentachlorodibenzofuran (P5CDF) and a real-time measuring equipment for ...