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Also, wood fuel is low in sulfur, ash, and trace toxic metals. Wood-fired power plants emit about 45% less nitrogen oxides, NO, than coal-fired units. Legislation intended to reduce sulfur oxides, SO, and NO emissions may therefore result in the encouragement of wood-burning or cofiring wood with coal. 

EPD, 2003c. Baseline surveys on trace toxics in Hong Kong marine biota. Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong SAR Government. 

The complexity of environmental matrices and the problems due to the spatial-temporal evolution of pollutants and their involvement in biogeochemical cycles calls for the utmost accuracy in data collection, data analysis and environmental control. The first and fundamental requisite to be satisfied in order to give definitive answers to existing environmental problems is the capacity to produce absolutely reliable data, particularly where trace toxic chemical substances are concerned. It is imperative that measured concentrations correspond strictly to the truth. This reminder might appear superfluous, but unfortunately the technical-scientific difficulties involved in the analytical process are often underestimated, as the scientific literature has already amply demonstrated (see for instance refs. 7 through 13). 

Harry, I.D., Saha, B., and Cumming, I.W.. Effect of electrochemical oxidation of activated carbon fiber on competitive and noncompetitive sorption of trace toxic metal ions from aqueous solution, J. Colloid Interf. Sci., 304, 9, 2006. 

A. Yenigiin, B. Taneli, andF. Oksel, 1995. Trace toxic elements in nutrition and health. In Proceeding International Conference on Health and Diseases Effects of Essential Toxic Trace Elements, 4th edn. Pp. 339-340. 

Trace toxic metals may escape from the municipal incineration process. Various agents, such as 0.25 M Na-citrate, have been used to aid the removal of heavy metals during electrodialytic treatment of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly-ash (Pedersen 2002). One study found that the bottom ash in a municipal incineration system had 1000-fold higher levels of chromium(VI) in test leachates than the hopper cyclone and filter ashes (Abbas et al. 2001), but another study found the chromium in fly-ash to be mostly trivalent chromium (Coodarzi and Huggins 2001). 

Stable activable tracers are powerful tools for the study of many environmental problems. Compared with fluorescent dyes or radiotracers, they offer many advantages that are reviewed herein. Our research group has emphasized the use of rare earth nuclides with short-lived activation products as stable activable tracers. Use of rare earth nuclides is cost-competitive with conventional tracers and allows rare earth "fingerprints to mark individual sources with subsequent simultaneous tracing of effluents from several sources. We present results from the application of these tracers to monitor pollutant dispersal from multiple industrial stacks, monitor fluid-bound pollutant dispersal in estuarine and fresh-water systems, monitor herbicide dispersal, and trace toxic organic chemicals in the marine environment. 

Filtration Filters made of nanofibres are used to trap materials such as viruses, bacteria, animal cells, endotoxins and macromolecules such as DNA. They are also used for removing trace toxic metals from water. 

Free thiol groups react with cysteinyl-disulfide residues in proteins to form a new disulfide link with the concomitant release of a free cysteine residue within the protein (Scheme 12, pathway A). No metabolic activation is required for the covalent binding process to occur. Thiols are also readily oxidized to sulfenic acids, which react with cysteinyl residues and reduced GSH to form mixed disulfides (Scheme 12, pathway B) (Migdalof et al., 1984 Coleman et al., 1988). Methimazole, penicillamine, and captopril are examples of free thiol-containing drugs wherein evidence has been presented that traces toxicity of these compounds with oxidation of the thiol group. 

Some fixed equipment including ductwork, piping or waste treatment systems can also be a source of toxic chemical hazards. Ductwork can be coated with residual materials scrubber systems will contain trace toxic materials from the process piping must be adequately purged before work can be safely imdertaken. On-site treatment systems to react solvents, or remove metals can produce toxic sludges and potential exposures. Adequate training and protective equipment will prevent exposure. 

Electro-membrane processes for the removal of trace toxic metal ions from water... 

Monty CN, Oh I, Masel RI (2008) Enzyme-based electrochemical multiphase miCToreactra-for detection of trace toxic vapors. IEEE Sensors J 8 580-586... 

The intervening chapters have dealt with specific analytical applications, for example, biological compounds, including DNA (Chapter 12), neurotransmitters (with capillary electrophoresis. Chapter 14), sulfur-containing compounds (Chapter 15), trace toxic metals (Chapter 16), and a variety of industrially important compounds (Chapter 17). 

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