Monitoring of Potential carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic compounds in the emission from coal combustion

A comprehensive summary for the study on the monitoring of potential carcinogenicpolycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the emission of coal combustion is presented in this pa-per. Some PACs in the stack gases of coal-fired boiler have been determined with a procedure whichconsists of isokinetic stack sampling, extraction, preseparation and some instrumental analysis stepssuch as gas chromatographylmass spectrometry (GC/MS), high performance liquid chromatographyfHPLC), room temperature phosphorimetry (RTP) and synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (SFS)and so on. The results indicate that the air pollution of PACs in China are related closely to thecoal combustion.