REVIEW PAPER
Volatile Methyl Siloxanes as Potential
Hazardous Air Pollutants
Kazimierz Gaj, Anna Pakuluk
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Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology,
Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Submission date: 2014-11-10
Final revision date: 2014-12-03
Acceptance date: 2014-12-03
Publication date: 2015-05-20
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2015;24(3):937-943
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Due to the more and more common use of siloxanes in consumer products and various industries, there
has been an increase of their concentration in biogases produced from sewage sludge and municipal waste and,
consequently, in the soil, water, and air. This paper presents sources and mechanisms of siloxane migration to
the environment, characterizes types and products of their transformations in the atmospheric air and during
the combustion of biogas, assesses hazards posed to the atmospheric air, and presents the results of siloxane
concentration measurements in biogases and the atmospheric air. It draws attention to the new problems that
have emerged in toxicology and atmosphere protection, outlines directions for necessary research, proposes
ways to reduce emissions of volatile methyl siloxanes (VMS), and suggests the introduction of relevant legislation.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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