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Record W4399976327 · doi:10.18280/ijsdp.190608

Optimizing the Elimination of Dioxin-Like Compounds (PCDD/Fs and PCBs) Through Effective Combustion Practices in the Flue Gas in the Medical Waste Incineration Facility

2024· article· en· W4399976327 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Nomathemba Themba, Linda L. Sibali, Tlou B. Chokwe

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIncinerationFlue gasMedical wasteCombustionWaste managementPolychlorinated dibenzofuransChemistryEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryOrganic chemistryEngineering

Abstract

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Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) are considered the most toxic and most concerning volatile organic compounds in the industrial flue gases.They are formed in various processes involving the combustion of organic materials in the presence of chlorine compounds, including modern and domestic coal burning, waste incinerators, sinter plants, cement industry, and metallurgical processes.The primary objective of this study was to investigate the destruction of PCDD/Fs and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) using effective combustion practices.Flue gas samples were collected from the medical waste incineration plant to analyze PCDD/Fs and PCBs destruction under different temperature intervals, O2 content, residence time, and exhaust gas recirculation.It has been found that, relying solely on good combustion practices is not sufficient to completely destruct PCDD/Fs and PCBs emissions.Even with the implementation of optimal combustion techniques, certain congeners such as 2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF and 1,2,3,7,8-PeCDD were still measured in high concentrations.Consequently, additional techniques such as dry sorbent injections, should be explored to meet the new stringent requirements of 0.1 ng I-TEQ/m 3 .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.187
Threshold uncertainty score0.178

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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