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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2020.58.3.325

Human Health Risk, Environmental and Economic Assessment Based on Multimedia Fugacity Model for Determination of Best Available Technology (BAT) for VOC Reduction in Industrial Complex  

Kim, Yelin (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Rhee, Gahee (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Heo, Sungku (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Nam, Kijeon (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Li, Qian (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Yoo, ChangKyoo (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.58, no.3, 2020 , pp. 325-345 More about this Journal
Abstract
Determination of Best available technology (BAT) was suggested to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a petrochemical industrial complex, by conducting human health risk, environmental, and economic assessment based on multimedia fugacity model. Fate and distribution of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) was predicted by the multimedia fugacity model, which represent VOCs emitted from the industrial complex in U-city. Media-integrated human health risk assessment and sensitivity analysis were conducted to predict the human health risk of BTEX and identify the critical variable which has adverse effects on human health. Besides, the environmental and economic assessment was conducted to determine the BAT for VOCs reduction. It is concluded that BTEX highly remained in soil media (60%, 61%, 64% and 63%), and xylene has remained as the highest proportion of BTEX in each environment media. From the candidates of BAT, the absorption was excluded due to its high human health risk. Moreover, it is identified that the half-life and exposure coefficient of each exposure route are highly correlated with human health risk by sensitivity analysis. In last, considering environmental and economic assessment, the regenerative thermal oxidation, the regenerative catalytic oxidation, the bio-filtration, the UV oxidation, and the activated carbon adsorption were determined as BAT for reducing VOCs in the petrochemical industrial complex. The suggested BAT determination methodology based on the media-integrated approach can contribute to the application of BAT into the workplace to efficiently manage the discharge facilities and operate an integrated environmental management system.
Keywords
Integrated environmental management; Best available technology (BAT); VOCs control technology; Multimedia fugacity model; Cost-benefit analysis; Human risk assessment;
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