Authors: Neeta Thacker Javed Sheikh S M Tamane Anil Bhanarkar Deepanjan Majumdar Kanchan Singh Chatrapati Chavhan Jitendra Trivedi
Publish Date: 2012/03/02
Volume: 185, Issue: 1, Pages: 425-429
Abstract
This study investigated dioxins and dioxinlike polychlorinated biphenyls in gasses emitted from waste incinerators and thermal processes in central and western parts of India The concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzopdioxins and dibenzofurans PCDDs/DFs ranged from 00070 to 268140 ng toxicity equivalent TEQ/Nm3 and those of dioxinlike polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs ranged from 00001 × 10−1 to 00295 ng TEQ/Nm3 The characteristics of mean PCDD/F ITEQ concentration and congener profiles were studied over all the samples of air In particular a pattern consisting of a low proportion of dioxinlike PCBs and high proportion of PCDDs/DFs was common for all the samples from incinerators and hightemperature processes
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