Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 195, Issue -, Pages 491-497Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.12.114
Keywords
Cement kiln; Dioxin; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Emission factor; Profiles
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2015CB453100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21577140]
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Cement production processes are important sources of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UP-POPs), such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The emissions of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in the stack flue gases from eight typical cement plants in China were investigated in this study, including one wet process rotary kiln, three dry process rotary kilns and four vertical shaft kilns. PCBs exhibited relatively higher mass concentrations with the dioxin-like (dl) and indicator PCBs of 0.14-17.36 and 0.42-12.90 ng/Nm(3), respectively. However, PCDD/Fs contributed most to the total toxic equivalent concentrations, with the proportions exceeding 90%. The international toxicity equivalency (I-TEQ) concentrations of PCDD/Fs varied greatly from 0.01 to 0.46 ng I-TEQ/Nm(3) in stack gases, two of which exceeded the exhaust gas concentration limit of 0.1 ng I-TEQ/Nm(3) established by the European Union Directive. In weight units, 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDF was the most abundant congener in the stack gases from various types of cement kilns, with the factions of 17.0-27.8%. TCDFs and PeCDFs were the first two most abundant homologue groups. 2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF was the largest contributor to the total I-TEQ. The emission factors of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in the eight cement kilns were estimated to be 0.01-1.35 mu g I-TEQ/t clinker and 8.20 x 10(-4)-8.23 x 10(-2) mu g World Health Organization TEQ (W-TEQ)/t clinker, respectively. No obvious differences of the PCDD/F and PCB emission factors were found among the varied cement production technologies. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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