Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are found on fly ash and in flue gas of municipal waste incinerators. Municipal waste incinerators seem to be the most important source for PCDDs and PCDFs emitted into the air during the last decades. PCDD/F formation takes place in the cooler zones (250 °C-450 °C) of a municipal waste incinerator, at the elect...

This report was undertaken to draw together scientific findings on incinerator emissions and their impacts on human health. A broad range of health effects have been associated with living near to incinerators as well as with working at these installations. Such effects include cancer (among both children and adults) adverse impacts on the respiratory system, heart disease, immune system effect...

The summary of the survey of codes relevant to design of transmutation of actinide by spallation is presented. The accelerator actinide incinerator has been studied by using the codes of nuclear cascade calculation including a high energy fission. The validity of the codes has been examined by comparing the experimental data of the yields of neutrons, and of spallation and fission products by a...

To evaluate whether this is feasible for complex industrial processes, we test the approach on data obtained from the operation of a hazardous waste incinerator. This process is a difficult problem to model. Previously, in a well-conducted study, the popular machine learning technique, analytic neural networks, was unable to derive useful solutions to this problem. The present study used variou...

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are injected into the atmosphere by various combustion processes and dispersed throughout the environment by atmospheric transport. These combustion processes include the incineration of municipal solid wastes (MSW). The construction of a MSW incinerator in the Portuguese region of Oporto in 1998 led to the development of an ex...

At present, the main contributors to waste to energy are municipal solid waste, manufacturing waste and landfill gas. Probably we are all most familiar with the first (MSW), which involves the garbage that the garbage men pick up regularly at our homes and which goes to a landfill, a transfer station, or incinerator. Today we are going to introduce you to something relatively new on the alterna...

After pollutants from an incineration facility disperse into the air, some people close to the facility may be exposed directly through inhalation or indirectly through consumption of food or water contaminated by deposition of the pollutants from air to soil, vegetation, and water. For metals and other pollutants that are very persistent in the environment, the potential effects may extend wel...