Dioxin surrogates - are there any meaningful ones?
- Rigo & Rigo Associates, Inc., Berea, OH (United States)
A number of easily measured pollutants have been offered up as dioxin surrogates - easily measured pollutants or process variables that consistently parallel dioxin emissions. Surrogates are a very attractive concept because the expense of direct dioxin measurement could be avoided. Also, the public can be assured that as long as easily and potentially continuously measured surrogates are within acceptable limits, people are not being exposed to excessive amounts of pollution. The question remains, however, is there a meaningful surrogate at conventionally regulated levels? Or, perhaps more importantly, at elevated levels that provide a comfortable margin of safety between normal operations and the conditions likely to represent elevated dioxin emissions?
- Research Organization:
- Solid Waste Association of North America, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Integrated Waste Services Association, Washington, DC (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Yonkers, NY (United States). Solid Waste Processing Div.; Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Air Pollution Technology Branch
- OSTI ID:
- 548937
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970440-; ON: DE97007054; TRN: 97:005590-0025
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. annual North American waste-to-energy conference and exhibition, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States), 22-25 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of fifth annual North American waste-to-energy conference; PB: 1102 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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