"Quantitative estimation of dioxin sources on the basis of congener-specific information" 

Shigeki Masunaga^1,2, Yuan Yao^1,2, Isamu Ogura³, Takeo Sakurai⁴, Junko Nakanishi³

¹Yokohama National University
²Japan Science and Technology Corporation
³National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
⁴National Institute for Environmental Studies

Organohalogen Compounds,   Vol.51 pp.22-25 (2001)

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Abstract

Identification of source is very important for taking better countermeasures against dioxin pollution. Analyzing all the tetra- to octa-chlorinated PCDD/DF congeners, the source identification powers of different levels of dioxin monitoring information are compared. Also the method for estimating contributions from different sources to the dioxin pollution is proposed. 

Keywords

PCDD, PCDF, source identification, multivariate analysis, principal component analysis