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Pollutants, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2023 - 13 articles

Cover Story: The use of Recovered Derived Fuels (RDF) for power generation in industrial plants is often rejected because of the potential release of pollutants. Under sub-optimal conditions, RDF combustion can actually lead to the synthesis of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Here, black locust leaves were used for the biomonitoring of PCBs in a mixed land use area near a cement plant co-powered by RDF from 2017. The spatial distribution of PCBs was not centred on the plant, while some samples had an unusually high content of specific PCBs that are consistent with past commercial mixtures, but not with PCBs released from the plant. A comparison with previous biomonitoring surveys supports the hypothesis that past PCB spillovers interfere—through volatilization—with the present industrial emissions. View this paper

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3 Citations

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16 Pages

Wastewater Characterization of Chiniot Drain and Evaluation of Groundwater Contamination Using Water Quality Index (WQI) and GIS Techniques

Anam Maqsood,
Haroon Rashid,
Shahbaz Nasir Khan,
Abdul Nasir,
Nafeesa Aman,
Ahsan Saif Ullah,
Ahmad,
Rana Ammar Aslam,
Hafiz Muhammad Safdar Khan and
Muhammad Umar Akbar

Pollutants2023, 3(1), 27-42;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants3010003

3 January 2023

Groundwater pollution is considered a major concern in today’s world. Most industries in Pakistan produce untreated wastewater, extracting from and contaminating a nearby water source and the soil. This study was conducted in the Nithar Ke area...

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Interference of Past Soil Contaminations in the Biomonitoring of PCB Emissions from a Recovered Derived Fuels (RDFs) Co-Powered Cement Plant

Lorenzo Fortuna and
Mauro Tretiach

Pollutants2023, 3(1), 12-26;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants3010002

29 December 2022

Although the intentional production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has totally been banned, these pollutants are still released into the atmosphere by industrial and domestic burning processes and by volatilization from soils locally contaminate...

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Spatiotemporal Effect of Land Use on Water Quality in a Peri-Urban Watershed in a Brazilian Metropolitan Region: An Approach Considering GEP-Based Artificial Intelligence

Adriano Bressane,
Anna Isabel Silva Loureiro,
Raissa Caroline Gomes,
Admilson Irio Ribeiro,
Regina Marcia Longo and
Rogério Galante Negri

Pollutants2023, 3(1), 1-11;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants3010001

20 December 2022

The suppression of natural spaces due to urban sprawl and increases in built and agricultural environments has affected water resource quality, especially in areas with high population densities. Considering the advances in the Brazilian environmenta...

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