20 Surrogate compounds for dioxins in incineration A review

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ElenaDanielaLavric*,AlexanderA.Konnov,JacquesDeRuyckDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,VrijeUniversiteitBrussel,Pleinlaan,2,BrusselsB-1050,BelgiumAccepted16December2004Availableonline1April2005

AbstractDioxins,formedinanycombustionprocesswherecarbon,oxygenandchlorinearepresent,areasubjectofmajorinterestduetotheirtoxicity.Theirmeasurementisveryexpensiveandtimeconsuming.Inordertooptimizethecombustionprocess,on-linemea-surementsofpollutantsmustbedone.Theuseofsurrogatecompoundsinsteadofdioxinsseemstobeaconvenientmethodtoover-cometheaforementioneddrawback.Thisworkisareviewoftheliteraturededicatedtothepossiblesurrogatecompoundsfordioxins;therelationshipsfoundweresystematizedand,insomecases,theavailableexperimentaldatawereusedandoriginalcor-relationswerefound.Correlationofsurrogatecompoundswasfoundtobe:incinerator,feedstock,processandsamplepointloca-tionspecific.Amongstthepossiblesurrogates,chlorobenzenesshowrealpossibilitiestobegoodindicatorsfortoxicequivalentfactors.Ó2005ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.

1.IntroductionTheincinerationofvariouswastes(municipal,chem-icalandhospital)orcombustionofdifferentmaterialscontainingchlorineleadtotheformationandemissionofpolychlorobenzenes(PCBzs),polychlorophenols(PCPs),polychlorinatedbiphenyls(PCBs),polynucleararomatichydrocarbons(PAH),dioxins,furansandotherspecies(Fiedler,1993;EveraertandBaeyens,2002).Woodcombustioncouldalsoleadtosignificantlevelsofdioxins(Lavricetal.,2003a,2004).Dioxinsaremostlyformedwhenthetemperatureofreactionisbetween200and600°C.Thefactorsaffectingemissionsfromcombustionsourcesare:PCDDinfeed,precursorsandchlorineinfeed,combustiontempera-ture,residencetime,oxygenavailability,feedprocessingandsupplementaryfuel(McKay,2002).Manyresearchershavetriedtoelucidatetheforma-tionmechanismsofPCDD/Fsandtheaffectingfactors

(Stieglitzetal.,1991;Fiedler,1993;AddinkandOlie,1995;FroeseandHutzinger,1996a,b;LaueandHerzschuh,1997;Lenoiretal.,1998;Huang,1999;EveraertandBaeyens,2001,2002).PrecursorroutesforPCDD/Fsareconventionallyclassifiedintoseveralcategories,althoughthedivisionbetweenthesecatego-riesissomewhatarbitrary:(1)formationfromchemi-callysimilarcompounds,i.e.,chlorobenzenes,chlorophenols,polychlorinatedbiphenyls,dioxinandfuran;(2)routestoPCDFs;(3)rapidformation/com-bustionofintermediates;(4)formationfromcarbona-ceousmatriceswithinflyash(denovo);and(5)otherC,H,O,Clcombinations(whichmaybeclassifiedasdenovo)(Altwicker,1996).Anestablishedconvention(setupin1989,byNorthAtlanticTreatyOrganisation)inPCDD/FsanalysisistoreporttheiremissionconcentrationsasInternationalToxicEquivalent(I-TEQ),whichistheweightedsumoftheconcentrationsofthe17PCDDandPCDFcong-enerswithchlorineinthe2,3,7and8positionsonthedibenzoskeleton,weightedaccordingtheirToxicEquiv-alentFactors(TEF)relativetothemosttoxiccongener,2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-dioxin

0956-053X/$-seefrontmatterÓ2005ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2004.12.026

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www.elsevier.com/locate/wasmanWasteManagement25(2005)755–765I-TEQ¼ð½PCDDiÂTEFi󰀂nÞþð½PCDFiÂTEFi󰀂nÞ:Intheolderstudiesthetotalamountofdioxinswasused.Newtoxicequivalentfactors(TEF)andatolerabledailyintake(TDI)ofPCDDs/PCDFsandPCBswerealsoproposedinsteadoftheconventionalinternationalTEFofPCDDsandPCDFsonly(WHO,1998).Theconventionalmethodsfordioxinmeasurement(basedonHRGC/HRMS)aretimeconsumingandre-quireadvancedskillsandveryhighcosts.Evennewmethods,whichdrasticallyreducetheoperationtime,hazardoussolventconsumptionandthus,thecost,donotprovideon-linereal-timeresults(Uranoetal.,2001).ThecontrolandoptimizationofthevaryingincinerationconditionsbyprimarymeasurescouldbedonebymonitoringindicatorparametersforPCDD/Fs(EveraertandBaeyens,2002).Inthiscaseasimpleindirectindicatorfortheproductionofdioxinsisanecessity.EffortshavebeenundertakentodeveloprobustscreeningtechniquestosimplifythedeterminationofPCDD/Fconcentrationinfluegases.Thereareessen-tiallythreescreeningstrategiesfortheI-TEQpredictionofastackgasessample(Fiedleretal.,2000):

(1)Theemissionofasurrogatechemical(i.e.,acompoundotherthanPCDDsandPCDFsbutwhichisrepresentativefortheemissionofthelatter)canbemeasuredinthestackgasesandcorrelatedwithcorrespondingPCDDsandPCDFs.(2)IfasinglePCDD/FscongenercanbeidentifiedbearingapredictablerelationshiptotheI-TEQofthesample,thensubsequentanalysiscanbetar-getedwiththissimplecongener.