Maud Walsh, Stephania Cormier, Kurt Varner, Barry Dellinger
{"title":"By-products of the Thermal Treatment of Hazardous Waste: Formation and Health Effects.","authors":"Maud Walsh, Stephania Cormier, Kurt Varner, Barry Dellinger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Destruction of toxic chemicals by thermal treatment can be a highly effective method for remediation of sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Of the 977 Superfund source control treatment projects in the United States from 1982 to 2005, 16% used incineration or other thermal treatments (the proportion is similar for 126 projects in the period 2002-2005).(1) However, as with other technologies, if thermal treatments are not matched correctly with the site or are improperly operated, harmful by-products can form, requiring further treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":72892,"journal":{"name":"EM (Pittsburgh, Pa.)","volume":" ","pages":"26-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368582/pdf/nihms309920.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30679143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing Variability and Uncertainty in Exposure Assessments Improves Links to Environmental Decision-Making.","authors":"Halûk Ozkaynak, H Christopher Frey, Bryan Hubbell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72892,"journal":{"name":"EM (Pittsburgh, Pa.)","volume":"58 7","pages":"18-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832473/pdf/nihms75778.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28758320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}