The present work indentifies some environmental and health impacts of a municipal solid waste bio-drying plant taking into account the PCDD/F release into the atmosphere, its concentration at ground level and its deposition. Four scenarios are presented for the process air treatment and management: biofilter or regenerative thermal oxidation treatment, at two different heights. A Gaussian dispersion model, AERMOD, was used in order to model the dispersion and deposition of the PCDD/F emissions into the atmosphere. Considerations on health risk, from different exposure pathways are presented using an original approach. The case of biofilter at ground level resulted the most critical, depending on the low dispersion of the pollutants. Suggestions on technical solutions for the optimization of the impact are presented.
Scheda prodotto non validato
I dati visualizzati non sono stati ancora sottoposti a validazione formale da parte dello Staff di IRIS, ma sono stati ugualmente trasmessi al Sito Docente Cineca (Loginmiur).
Titolo: | PCDD/F environment impact from municipal solid waste bio-drying plant |
Autori: | Rada, Elena Cristina; Ragazzi, Marco; Zardi, Dino; Laiti, Lavinia; A., Ferrari |
Autori Unitn: | |
Titolo del periodico: | CHEMOSPHERE |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Numero e parte del fascicolo: | 3 |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-79957777317 |
Codice identificativo Pubmed: | 21550632 |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000292369400002 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.04.019 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/86571 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03.1 Articolo su rivista (Journal article) |