scholarly journals Cancer risks from soil emissions of volatile organic compounds at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. R., LLNL Dibley
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Cancer Risks ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Soil Emissions

Risk Assessments of Exposure to Airborne Volatile Organic Compounds in Gumi Industrial Complex Area, Korea

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 932-936
Author(s):  
Ying Wei Yun ◽  
Feng Li Fan ◽  
Hee Su Lim ◽  
Tae Oh Kim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Cancer Risks ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Volatile Organic

This paper carried out the lifetime risk assessment of exposure to airborne Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in environmental atmosphere in one Korean industrial city-Gumi based on the measured concentrations of VOCs at five representative outdoor monitoring sites. According to the measured VOCs concentration, toluene, trichloroethylene and dichloromethane are three main VOCs in Gumi. The carcinogenic risks for each of the carcinogenic VOCs in all five designated sites are more than the benchmark concentration (1.0E-6). The predominant risks in industrial areas are chloroform, benzene and trichloroethylene. And the predominant risks in other sites are benzene and chloroform and their proportions to cancer risk are not less than 90%. Based the analysis, effectively decreasing the emission of chloroform, benzene, Trichloroethylene and 1,2-dichloropropane will rapidly reduce the cancer risks in Gumi.

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