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There has been an alarming increase in toxic cyanobacteria over the past 2 decades, with numerous poisonings reported from Australia to the United States. The increased toxic risks led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include cyanotoxins on the 1998 Contaminant Candidate List. Most cyanobacterial blooms, however, are not toxic. Furthermore, bloom toxicity will change o ...

A SOURCE ANALYZER IS DESCRIBED THAT CAN MONITOR STACKS AND PROCESS STREAMS AND EXERCISE COMPUTER FEEDBACK CONTROL TO OPTIMIZE COMBUSTION OR OTHER PROCESSES TO MINIMIZE POLLUTION. THE PROPOSED MONITOR EMPLOYS THE OPTICAL TECHNIQUE OF IR GAS FILTER CORRELATION FOR ALL SPECIES, USESEXTRACTIVE SAMPLING BY MEANS OF A PROBE, IS SMALL IN SIZE, RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE, AND CAN BE CONTROLLED BY AN INTERNALO ...

INCINERATION OF MOST INDUSTRIAL WASTES, INCLUDING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, RESULTS IN THE EMISSION OF POTENTIALLY TOXIC TRACE METAL AEROSOLS. MOST OF THE TRACE METAL SPECIES IN THE WASTE FEED, SUCH AS LEAD, CROMIUM, MERCURY AND ARSENIC, COMPLETELY VOLATILIZE IN THE COMBUSTION ZONE, AND SUBSEQUENTLY CONDENSE AND CONCENTRATE IN THE SUBMICRON-SIZEDASH PARTICLES (FUME). THIS SIZE FRACTION CANNOT BE REMO ...