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of the EMECAP Project is to improve the tools at Regulatory Bodies disposal
to plan the actions to safeguard citizens health from mercury pollution.
The EMECAP project will design and develop two innovative mini-devices for measuring
atmospheric mercury concentration, an enhanced mathematical model to simulate
mercury dispersion, a smart software to render explicit the correlation
between the data acquired through epidemiological and environmental researches
and improved diffusion samplers/dosimeters for gaseous mercury to measure
personal exposure level to mercury. Relevant results on human health risks
of mercury emissions from Mercury Cell Chlor-Alkali (MCCA) plants will
be obtained from the combined epidemiological and environmental studies
carried on three demonstration sites.
The EMECAP approach,
though focused on Chlor-Alkali plants, can be applied to the monitoring
of mercury concentration over large areas around potentially polluting
sites (incinerators, crematories, dumps, mining sites to be remediated
or in remediation phase) and around small areas which, because of their
destination (hospitals, schools, retirement home…), require particular
attention
The project results will provide decision-makers with an improved tool
to evaluate the risk for the human health and for the environment around
MCCA plants. The natural follow-up will be the extension of the methodological
and technical achievements in extra European countries to build a control
and remediation world-wide network. |
