Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on October 28, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp224
INFLUENCE OF A CEMENT INDUSTRY ON THE FINE AND ULTRAFINE PARTICLES COMPOSITION IN A RURAL AREA
ARPAV (Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Veneto), Via Dominutti 8, 37135 Verona (VR), Italy
* Corresponding author: fpredicatori{at}arpa.veneto.it
The cement industry of this work is located in the Fumane valley, in the north of Verona. The environmental impact of the air emissions from the plant was studied using different methods: the characterisation of the raw materials utilised in the production process and of the emissions from the chimney of the clinker kiln; the sampling of the air particles on filter in the region around the plant; the biomonitoring using transplanted mosses; the study of the air pollution dispersion using a model.