Trace Metal Particulate Emission Test Results from a Number of Industrial and Municipal Point Sources
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- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association
- Vol. 27 (10) , 989-994
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00022470.1977.10470522
Abstract
As part of a Purdue University study of the environmental flow of cadmium and other trace metals, source emission sampling for par-ticulates has been conducted at a number of industrial and municipal plants. The emission samples from each plant were analyzed for Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu, and in some cases Fe and Ni by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Atmospheric mass emission rates and emission factors are reported for total particulates and for each metal. Cadmium emission factors were found to be substantially different from those estimated by Davis in an earlier report. Aerodynamic particle size distributions were measured at each source using an Andersen im-pactor. A comparison of the total particulate size distributions with the trace metal size distributions revealed that the metals are not evenly distributed among the particle sizes. In every case the trace metals were found predominantly in the respirable particulate fraction even when the bulk of the emissions were non-respirable.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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