Potential Pollutants Released From A Recycling Plant For Lead-acid Batteries And Their Health Impact In Malaysia: Result Of Air Modeling [ ]


Battery recycling activity has become an important industry in many developing and developed countries. Using an air dispersion modeling results of one recycling plant, the study aims to determine the contents and their concentration in two simulated conditions, controlled and uncontrolled scenarios. For controlled modeling, all pollutants were within the permissible limits. However, in uncontrolled situation, Pb was found to be the major pollutants followed by As, Cd, PM10 and SO2. In addition, the lifetime cancer risk was not exceeded the limit even though on uncontrolled emission simulation.