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China, the monitor of dioxin emission for every plant by the environment protection bureau
is just one time per year (three samples for a time), so that the information of daily emission
is unknown. Some incinerators would release higher concentration of pollutants, which
would cause the pollution in the vicinity of plants. Thus, a comprehensive supervised
system and more stringent emission limit standard should be established. This tracking
monitoring study will be continued in the future years, and the air samples also would be
collected and determined to better clarify the environmental impact of waste incinerators.
At present, the baseline survey of PCDD/Fs in vicinity soil must be done and noted before
the operation of new incinerators according to latest Chinese regulations. The baseline will
be used to the comparison with the vale of PCDD/Fs in soil years later, which is basic
method to assess the environmental impact of plant.
5. Acknowledgement
This study was supported by Major State Basic Research Development Program of China
(973 Program) (No.2011CB201500), National High Technology Research and Development
Program of China (2007AA06Z336) and Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student
granted by Ministry of Education. The authors gratefully acknowledge Prof. Alfons G.
Buekens (Retired from Free University of Brussels), Dr. Kees Olie (Retired from University
of Amsterdam) and Dr. Robert E. Hall (Retired from U.S. EPA) for their kind guide
assistance and English editing.
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