@article{ref1,
title="Reducing health risk assigned to organic emissions from a chemical weapons incinerator",
journal="Environmental monitoring and assessment",
year="2013",
author="Laman, David M. and Weiler, B. Douglas and Skeen, Rodney S.",
volume="185",
number="3",
pages="2257-2267",
abstract="Organic emissions from a chemical weapons incinerator have been characterized with an improved set of analytical methods to reduce the human health risk assigned to operations of the facility. A gas chromatography/mass selective detection method with substantially reduced detection limits has been used in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared microscopy to improve the speciation of semi-volatile and non-volatile organics emitted from the incinerator. The reduced detection limits have allowed a significant reduction in the assumed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and aminobiphenyl (ABP) emission rates used as inputs to the human health risk assessment for the incinerator. A mean factor of 17 decrease in assigned human health risk is realized for six common local exposure scenarios as a result of the reduced PAH and ABP detection limits.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0167-6369",
doi="10.1007/s10661-012-2706-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-012-2706-x"
}