Health effects for the population living near a cement plant: An epidemiological assessment

Bertoldi, Martina; Borgini, Alessandro; Tittarelli, Andrea; Fattore, Elena; Cau, Alessandro; Fanelli, Roberto; Crosignani, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2011.12.005

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“…Several epidemiological studies have indicated a strong association between cement dust pollution and allergic reactions, asthma, and lung cancer (Bertoldi et al 2012;Aljeesh et al 2015;Sánchez-Soberón et al 2015). Furthermore, not only human health is being affected by cement dust, plants, fungi and microbial communities are also being adversely affected.…”

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Transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to cement dust

Abu-Romman

Alzubi

2016

Genes Genom

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Cement dust is a major particulate air pollutants and can cause negative impacts on plant growth and development. The molecular bases of plant responses to cement dust are not elucidated. Therefore, a transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis in response to cement dust was performed. In the present study, seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana were exposed to cement dust at a rate of 1.5 g per 1 m 2 area. Total RNA from control and cement-dust treated plants were used for transcriptome analysis using GeneChip Ò Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array. In response to cement dust application, the transcriptional profiling identified 1599 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) using a two-fold cutoff. Of these DEGs, 831 were up-regulated, and 768 were downregulated. Differential expression of 15 genes from this list was validated using qRT-PCR. Gene ontology analysis using AgriGo program revealed that a large proportion of upregulated DEGs are related to response to stimulus, response to stress, response to chemical stimulus, transcription factor activity, hydrolase activity, and carboxylesterase activity. While, a large proportion of down-regulated DEGs were mainly in the following categories: biosynthetic process, biological regulation, and response to stimulus, nucleic acid binding, transcription regulator activity, transcription factor activity, organelle lumen, nuclear lumen, and nucleolus. The DEGs up-regulated in response to cement dust include a set of reactive oxygen species scavenging enzymes (e.g., ascorbate peroxidase 2, peroxidases, glutathione S-transferases), heat shock proteins, late embryogenesis abundant proteins, D 1 -pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase 1, as well as transcription factor genes of different families. This study is the first to provide a global view of the transcriptomic profiling of Arabidopsis in response to cement dust. The results will be helpful for better understanding the molecular basis for plant responses to cement dust pollution.

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Transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to cement dust

Abu-Romman

Alzubi

2016

Genes Genom

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“…Some studies have linked exposure to emissions of cement plants with health risks (Schuhmacher et al, 2004), and specific health outcomes as contact dermatitis (Isikli et al, 2003), risk of hospital admission for cardiovascular or respiratory causes (Bertoldi et al, 2012), and preterm delivery (Yang et al, 2003) among populations residing in its vicinity. To our knowledge, very few epidemiologic studies focused on cancer have been conducted on populations living near cement clinker plants (excluding cement asbestos industries).…”

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Cancer mortality in towns in the vicinity of installations for the production of cement, lime, plaster, and magnesium oxide

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“…Precalciner is one of the most important equipments of cement system, there are gas-solid flowing, radiation heat transfers, pulverized coal combustion and raw meal decomposition, in which the raw meal suspended in gas flowing requires the heat generated by burning pulverized coal in order to decompose CaCO 3 in raw meal. It has already reported that complex process in precalciner has great effect on energy consumption, pollutants discharge and production efficiency [1,2]. So far, the decomposition ratio is about 85%~95% [3,4].…”

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Analysis of the Temperature and CO2 Concentration in Precalciner Based on Fluent Software

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Zhao²,

Xing³

2015

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Material, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Abstract. The coupling between the pulverized coal combustion and raw meal decomposition in precalciner of the cement plant with capacity of 5000t/d was investigated by Fluent software. The standard k-ε model was proposed to simulate the three-dimension turbulence flow. The multiphase was calculated coupling process. The non-premixed combustion model was applied to the chemical reaction. The energy generated by chemical reaction was expressed the PI radiation model. The particle stochastic trajectory model was abided by track particles movement. The simulate results show the field of temperature and CO 2 concentration with three decomposition ratio 85%, 88% and 92%. This provides the thermal data for the producers and managers in the cement plant.

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Health effects for the population living near a cement plant: An epidemiological assessment

Cited by 51 publications

References 26 publications

Transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to cement dust

Transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to cement dust

Cancer mortality in towns in the vicinity of installations for the production of cement, lime, plaster, and magnesium oxide

Analysis of the Temperature and CO2 Concentration in Precalciner Based on Fluent Software

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