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Abstract A PAH(Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon) stack- sampling system and PS-1 sampling system were used to investigate the PAH emission for 10 industrial boilers and for the ambient air of petrochemical-industry (PCI) area. The fuels used for these 10 boilers include a heavy oil, a diesel, a co- combustion of heavy oil and nature gas (HO+NG) and a co- combustion of coke oven gas and blast furance gas (COG+BFG). The main objectives of this study are to investigate the concentration, composition, emission rate and emission factor of twenty-one individual PAHs in the boiler flue gas, and compared the difference of PAHs in the boiler flue gas and in ambient air Twenty-one individual PAHs were analyzed primarily by gas chromatography / mass spectrometer (GC/MS). Total-PAH concentration in the fuel gas of 32 measured data for these 10 boiler stacks ranged between 11.6 and 363 ug/Nm3 and averaged 75.3 ug/Nm3. Total-PAH concentration in anbient airof PCI averaged 1203 ng/m3. In the boiler flue gas, the mean fraction of PAH-homologue mass(F%) counted for the total-PAH mass were 57%, 13.6%, 24.4% and 24.4% for the 2-ring, 3-ring and 4-ring PAHs,respectively. ThePAHs in the stack flue gas were dominant in the lower molecular weight PAHs. Phase distribution of the total-PAHs in the flue gas was mainly inthe gas phase. Phase distribution of the total-PAHs averaged 96% in the gas phase. The emission factors of total-PAHs were 2750, 1170, 1150 and 83.2 ug/kg-fuel for the heavy oil, diesel, HO+NG and COG+BFG fueled-boiler,respectively. Nap is a most predominant PAH occurred in the stack flue gas.The emission factor of BaP for both heavy oil and diesel-fueled boilers arefairly constant and are approximately 1.0 ng/kcal of heat generated or 10.0 ug/kg- fuel consumed.
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