Incinerator Emissions Incinerators licensed for hazardous waste disposal are required by EPA to undergo a trial burn to determine their performance characteristics. The limitations of this procedure are apparent because emissions are dependent on physical and biological parameters that are unpredictable and incompletely understood. Damage to the environment resulting in loss of these services underscores the risk of toxicants to the public. However, to be recognized the damage must be intense, local, and immediate, whereas global changes are difficult to measure and poorly understood. Exposure to aluminum occurs via food, drinking water, and pharmaceuticals, as well as by inhalation in the workplace.
Models suggest that the remainder of the charged species is unavailable for tissue uptake.
A physiologically based toxicokinetic model was developed using rainbow trout. Nichols et al. Five tissue volumes corresponding to liver, kidney, muscle, gastrointestinal tract, and fat were produced. Models of kinetic data for the disposition of pentachloroethane were mapped onto corresponding tissue volumes, with color intensity representing chemical concentration. Images could then be animated to illustrate accumulation of chemical in each tissue during continuous exposure via the gills.