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Voc Emission Characteristics and Health Risks of the Packaging and Printing Industries in Shandong Province, China

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2024
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Article Description

The packaging and printing industry is one of the important industrial sources of VOC emissions in China, making it an important field for comprehensive VOC control. The VOC emission characteristics of the packaging and printing sector in China have experienced significant changes through clean air action. Further studies are required to investigate the emission characteristics of VOCs and the spectra of the components in the packaging and printing industry concerning various categories, processes, and regions. This study conducted a comprehensive investigation of VOC emissions and associated health risks in 10 representative packaging and printing firms (including metal, plastic, and paper packaging) across several cities in Shandong Province, China. Plastic packaging enterprises have the greatest levels of unorganized VOC emissions. OVOCs constitute the predominant fraction of these emissions, followed by alkanes and halocarbons. OVOCs, alkanes, and aromatics are significant components of unorganized VOC emissions from metal and paper packaging enterprises. Aromatics, halocarbons, and OVOCs contribute significantly to ozone formation potential in workshops. The potential carcinogenic risk associated with VOCs in the packaging and printing industry is not shown to be significant. However, it is worth noting that the workshop environment may provide a comparatively elevated non-carcinogenic risk attributable to ethyl acetate, isopropyl alcohol, acrolein, 1,1,2-Trichloroethane, 1,2-Dichloropropane, and naphthalene. Source reduction, process control, and terminal treatment are crucial strategies for effectively mitigating and managing VOC pollution. Simultaneously, it is essential to provide precedence to the working environment conditions of workshop laborers, while also undertaking scientific and systematic measures to mitigate the detrimental impacts of VOCs on the environment and human welfare.

Bibliographic Details

Ledong Zhu; Yanbo Peng; Miaomiao Li; Jie Li; Haolin Wang; Qingzhu Zhang; Wenxing Wang; Xu Guan; Anbao Gong; Huan Xie; Shurui Chen

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs); Packaging and printing industry; Emission characteristic; Human health risk assessment; Computational and Experimental Synergy

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