Re: PVC burning and TeCDF

[asagady@sojourn.com]

At 12:13 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I am trying to build a webpage on an abandoned site in my neighborhood which
>historically burned PVC wire insulation.  I would appreciate any comments from
>folks on the list.  My thanks in advance to those who can take a moment to
>peek and comment.
>
>Marco Kaltofen
>Boston Chemical Data Corp.
>

You will want to go get this article....  I don't know if I 
have it anymore or not, but if I find it, please send
your snail mail address and I'll send you it if I can 
find it.

Did they just burn scrap wire, or did they also burn
transformer cores????   You should find out 
as the transformer core incineration also potentially 
introduces certain PCB waste incineration issues.
Medline will also have some references relating to 
transformer core incineration.  Some of these 
operations, like one I am aware of in Pontiac, MI, 
also burn tires along with wire scrap in a pyrolizing
oven to get more BTUs from the tires than would
otherwise be available just from wire scrap.   

In general, this is a pretty dirty business of waste
recovery....

Regards,

Alex Sagady

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 3/5/1 
04502000   82045000
  A wire reclamation incinerator as a source of environmental contamination
with tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and tetrachlorodibenzofurans.
  Hryhorczuk DO; Withrow WA; Hesse CS; Beasley VR
  Arch Environ Health   Sep-Oct 1981,  36 (5) p228-34,  ISSN 0003-9896
Journal Code: 6YO
  Languages: ENGLISH
  Journal Announcement: 8202
  Subfile:   AIM; INDEX MEDICUS
  The  authors investigated an outbreaks of unusual illnesses in humans and
horses  residing within 1.3 km of a wire reclamation incinerator. The study
included  site  visits;  medical  and  veterinary examinations; analyses of
furnace  ash,  fly  ash,  soil,  and  biologic  samples  for  air residues.
Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins  (TCDDs)  and tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDFs)
were  discovered  in furnace ash, fly ash, soil, horse fat, and horse liver
samples.
  Tags: Animal; Female; Human; Male; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S.
Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  Descriptors:   *Air  Pollutants--Adverse  Effects--AE;  *Air  Pollutants,
Environmental--Adverse   Effects--AE;   *Benzofurans--Adverse  Effects--AE;
*Receptors, Drug--Adverse Effects--AE; Adult; Air Pollutants, Environmental
--Analysis--AN;  Benzofurans--Analysis--AN;  Dermatitis,  Contact--Etiology 
--ET;  Dizziness--Chemically  Induced--CI; Eye Diseases--Chemically Induced
--CI;  Horse  Diseases--Chemically  Induced--CI;  Horses; Industry; Infant,
Newborn;  Liver--Analysis--AN;  Middle Age; Nausea--Chemically Induced--CI;
Pharyngeal Diseases--Chemically Induced--CI; Receptors, Drug--Analysis--AN;
Smoke--Analysis--AN;   Soil--Analysis--AN;  United  States;  United  States
Environmental Protection Agency
  CAS  Registry  No.:  0    (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin receptor);
51207-31-9   (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran) 

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