Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

, Volume 185, Issue 1, pp 425–429 | Cite as

Emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to air from waste incinerators and high thermal processes in India

  • Neeta Thacker
  • Javed Sheikh
  • S. M. Tamane
  • Anil Bhanarkar
  • Deepanjan Majumdar
  • Kanchan Singh
  • Chatrapati Chavhan
  • Jitendra Trivedi
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Abstract

This study investigated dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in gasses emitted from waste incinerators and thermal processes in central and western parts of India. The concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDDs/DFs) ranged from 0.0070 to 26.8140 ng toxicity equivalent (TEQ)/Nm3, and those of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ranged from 0.0001 × 10−1 to 0.0295 ng TEQ/Nm3. The characteristics of mean PCDD/F I-TEQ concentration and congener profiles were studied over all the samples of air. In particular, a pattern consisting of a low proportion of dioxin-like PCBs and high proportion of PCDDs/DFs was common for all the samples from incinerators and high-temperature processes.

Keywords

Dioxins Furans Dioxin-like PCBs POPs Incineration Thermal processes 
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Acknowledgments

The authors are highly thankful to the Director, NEERI, Nagpur (India), for his kind support and continuous encouragement to shape out this work.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Neeta Thacker
    • 1
  • Javed Sheikh
    • 1
  • S. M. Tamane
    • 1
  • Anil Bhanarkar
    • 1
  • Deepanjan Majumdar
    • 1
  • Kanchan Singh
    • 1
  • Chatrapati Chavhan
    • 1
  • Jitendra Trivedi
    • 1
  1. 1.National Environmental Engineering Research InstituteNagpurIndia

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