TITLE: Public Health Hazards of Lurgi/Fischer-Tropsch Coal Liquefaction.

AUTHOR: J. R. Gasper;   S. E. Rosenberg.

INST.  AUTHOR: Argonne National Lab., IL.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  Jan 81,  63p.

ABSTRACT:

This analysis identifies the public hazards of wastes from Lurgi/Fischer-Tropsch coal liquefaction. Because data on dose-response and synergism are not available for many of the waste chemicals from this process, we evaluated hazards with a relative risk approach. This approach employs two measures of hazards. First, body burdens that result from exposure to Lurgi/Fischer-Tropsch wastes are compared to body burdens from other sources of the same chemicals. Second ambient concentrations of pollutants from Lurgi/Fischer-Tropsch operations are projected and compared to various air and water quality standards. (ERA citation 07:003218)

REPORT  NUMBER: ANL/EES-TM-153

CONTRACT  NUMBER: W-31-109-ENG-38