"Identification of sources of dioxin-like PCBs in sediments of Japan by a chemical mass balance approach" 

Isamu Ogura¹, Shigeki Masunaga², Kikuo Yoshida¹, Junko Nakanishi¹

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
²Yokohama National University

22nd International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and POPs (Barcelona 2002/8/12)

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Abstract

The contributions from potential sources to the accumulation of dioxin-like PCBs in sediments were estimated by a chemical mass balance (CMB) approach, assuming that most of the dioxin-like PCBs in sediments originate from Kanechlors (major Japanese PCB products) and incinerator emission.

Keywords

Co-PCB, Dioxin, source identification, CMB, Monte Carlo simulation