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Open burning of household waste: Effect of experimental condition on combustion quality and emission of PCDD, PCDF and PCB
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Solorzano-Ochoa, G., D. A. de la Rosa, P. Maiz-Larralde, B. K. GULLETT, D. G. TABOR, A. TOUATI, B. Wyrzykowska-Ceradini, H. Fiedler, T. Abel, AND W. F. Carroll Jr. Open burning of household waste: Effect of experimental condition on combustion quality and emission of PCDD, PCDF and PCB. CHEMOSPHERE. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, 87(9):1003-1008, (2012).
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Open burning for waste disposal is, in many countries, the dominant source of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins/dibenzofurans and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCDD/PCDF/PCB) release to the environment. To generate emission factors for open burning, experimental pile burns of ca 100 kg household waste were conducted with emissions sampling. From these experiments and others conducted by the same authors it is found that active mixing of the fire--“stirring”--promotes better combustion (as evidenced by lower CO/CO2 ratio) and reduces emissions of PCDD/PCDF/PCB; an intuitive but previously undemonstrated result. These experiments also support previous results suggesting PCDD/PCDF/PCB generation in open burning—while still highly variable--tends to be greater in the later (smoldering) phases of burning when the CO/CO2 ratio increases.
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