Organic Air Pollutants

EPA, Compendium of Methods for Toxic Organic Air Pollutants, Method TO-17, EPA/625/R-96/OlOb, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (1999). 

Rainwater Groundwater, lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen, dust Sand (silica) and soil particles chlorides, bicarbonates, and sulfates, mainly of calcium, sodium, magnesium, and iron ions organic Air pollutants Rocks and soil, microorganisms, plant and animal... 

Dorigan J, Fuller B, Duffy R. 1976. Preliminary scoring of organic air pollutants Chemistry, production and toxicity of selected synthetic organic chemicals (chemicals A-C) Appendix I. 

Helmes CT, Atkinson DL, Jaffer J, et al. 1982. Evaluation and classification of the potential carcinogenicity of organic air pollutants. J Environ Sci Health A17 321-389. 

Hawthome SB, Sievers RE. 1984. Emission of organic air pollutants from shale oil wastewaters. Environ Sci Technol 18 483-490. 

Ehckson MD, Pellizzah Ed. 1978. Analysis of organic air pollutants in the Kanawha Valley, WV, and the Shanandoah Valley, VA. Philadelphia, PA US Environmental Protection Agency, Region III. 

EPA, Pollutant Strategies Branch, Selected Organic Air Pollutants. 

Harley, R. A and G. R. Cass, Modeling the Concentrations of Gas-Phase Toxic Organic Air Pollutants Direct Emissions and Atmospheric Formation, Environ. Sci. Technol., 28, 88-98(1994). 

The development of new models for the prediction of chemical effects in the environment has improved. An Eulerian photochemical air quality model for the prediction of the atmospheric transport and chemical reactions of gas-phase toxic organic air pollutants has been published. The organic compounds were drawn from a list of 189 species selected for control as hazardous air pollutants in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The species considered include benzene, various alkylbenzenes, phenol, cresols, 1,3-butadiene, acrolein, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and perchloroethyl-ene, among others. The finding that photochemical production can be a major contributor to the total concentrations of some toxic organic species implies that control programs for those species must consider more than just direct emissions (Harley and Cass, 1994). This further corroborates the present weakness in many atmospheric models. 

Gaffney, J.S., 1982. "Organic air pollutants setting priorities for long-term research needs," Report BNL 51605 UC-11, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1982. 

Bruner F, Bertoni G, Crescentini G. 1978. Critical evaluation of sampling and gas chromatographic analysis of halocarbons and other organic air pollutants. J Chromatogr 167 399-407. 

S. B. Hawthorne, R. E.Sievers, Emission of Organic Air Pollutants from Shale Oil Wastewaters, Environ.Sci.Technol. 1984, 18, 483-490. 

Organic air pollutants Carcinogenicity or co-carcinogenicity mucus coagulation. 

Harley RA, Cass GR. 1994. Modeling the concentrations of gas-phase toxic organic air pollutants Direct emissions and atmospheric formation. Environ Sci Technol 28 88-98. 

It is now generally accepted that combustion is the almost exclusive source of the carcinogen and endocrine-disrupting chemical family of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/F or dioxins for short). Dioxins are part of a broader class of chlorinated organic air pollutants that are produced by most combustion sources. All that is necessary are a small source of chlorine (that may even be in the combustion makeup air), a catalytic metal, and a hydrocarbon. 

C. J. Heyes, J. G. Irwin, H, A. Johnson, and R.L. Moss, "The Catalytic Oxidation of Organic Air Pollutants. Part 1. Single Metal Oxide Catalysts", J. Chem. Tech. Biotechnol.. 1982,22, 1025-1033. 

Investigation concepts and quality guidelines for organic air pollutants... 

In the following, the proposed new definition of TVOC from the EU-ECA working group (EU-ECA-WG 13, 1996) is summarized. It is important to underline that the TVOC value determined according to the procedure mentioned below does not include all organic compounds in indoor air. There are non-VOC organic air pollutants highly relevant for lAQ that are not reflected in the TVOC value. 

J. Smeyers-Vetbecke et al.. The use of principle components analysis for the investigation of an organic air pollutants data set, Atmos. Environ. 18 (1984) 2471. 

Knights, R. L. Analysis of Particulate Organic Air Pollutants by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Adv. Environ. Sci. Technol. 9, 237 (1980)... 

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