Evaluation of life cycle in the process of production and management of PVC waste by LCA method and prediction of toxicity (TEQ) effect of dioxins using Artificial Neural Network method and nonlinear regression

Today, using plastic tools and materials to meet executive and design needs is considered an integral part of industries such as the construction industry. Among these materials, PVC pipes in equipment and installations or UPVC windows could be mentioned. The missing link in the widespread use and utilization of this material is in the lack of attention to emissions from production and during waste management of the process. This study focuses on library studies to delineate the LCA cycle of air pollution in waste generation and management. At the end of the study, using the ANN artifi cial neural network method and the tested data, a logical relationship was found between the toxicity effect (TEQ) and the produced PCDD/F dioxins based on Gaussian and exponential models. The results of the obtained models have the ability to predict the toxicity effect with 60% 70% accuracy.

the focus of this research was on the production of PCB's dioxin [4]. ICI (1989) also conducted research on the production of pollutants such as PCDF's and PCDD'S. The results of this study showed that in order to prevent the production of the mentioned pollutants, all devices and tools should be calibrated, which is impossible to achieve [5]. A group of researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands (1989) simulated the production of dioxins during EDC production.
The results of this study showed that for every 100,000 tons of EDC production, 419 grams of dioxin is produced [6]. In another study, Krishnapatnam (2003) evaluated the effects of air pollution during the production of PVCs. This research has been done with the approach of investigating the effects of toxicity, greenhouse and the possibility of leakage [7]. Aliei, et al. (2013) investigated the pollutants from PVC production in a case study of Arvand Petrochemical. The study was conducted in the fi eld of air and water; Finally, solutions for air and sewage purifi cation were presented [8]. This research also intends to investigate the amount of air pollution during production and waste management using the LCA life cycle method and also to predict the toxicity effect (TEQ) using modeling.

Material and methods
This research has been carried out in two parallel phases as follows. In the fi rst part, by studying databases and reports, air pollution from PVC production was investigated in the LCA method. In the secondary part, the toxicity effect of PCDD/F dioxins was modeled using ANN artifi cial neural network system.

Determining mass balance and air pollution during PVC production
This part of the research, with library studies, calculated and classifi ed the mass balance of input and output of production. Then the pollutants created during production and waste management were examined.

Predicting the toxicity effect (TEQ) of PCDD/F dioxins
As mentioned previously, one of the by-products when producing EDCs for VCM (PVC raw material) is dioxins. This part of the study also interpolated and extrapolated (with a limited radius) TEQ values for PCDD/F concentrations by the ANN method. Modeling can predict the effects of hazardous dioxins as well as intelligent HSE control systems.

Results
According to studies conducted at the University of Oregan (Oregan uni.) In the United States, per kilogram of PVC production, 0.42 g of photochemical product, 0.142 kg of non-hazardous waste, 0.008 kg of hazardous waste, 0.62 g of phosphate production, 0.486 g of suspended particles, 5.3 g of sulfur dioxide with the potential to cause acid rain, 1.9 kg of sulfur dioxide with the effect of global warming and a total of 2056.826 g of pollutants are produced as described in Figure 1.
Analysis, review, and compliance of data reported by the University of Amsterdam [6], Oregon [9] and the report of Malbasa, et al. on the DINA plant in the Czech Republic [10], show 1%-2% by weight of chlorine gas During chemical recycling PVC and 2% -5% by weight are released into space during waste generation as shown in Figure 2. It is clear that the chlorine emitted poses a serious threat to the ozone layer if left unchecked. Theisen (1991) conducted a study on measuring the toxicity factors of TEQ produced by PCDD/F during PVC production which the results are presented in Table 1 [11][12][13][14][15].
In this study, using ANN artifi cial neural network analysis, the values of expressed errors and their trend were analyzed in Table 1 and then the desired data were interpolated. The results of ANN analysis are as described in Table 2 and Figure 3.
As shown in Table 2 Potential of acid rain with production in l of acid rain with produ d c sulfur oxide = 5.3 g Suspended particle production ended particle produc potential 0.486 g Phosphate production potential produ d ction 0.620 g  the weight of chlorine is released into the waste management process, which poses a serious threat to the ozone layer. The next step of this study was to predict the toxicity of TEQ dioxin compounds in PVC production. In this regard, Gaussian and exponential models were presented to predict the toxicity of PCDD/F (ppt) dioxins. We hope that the results of this research will help the development of dear Iran as much as possible. obtained by Gaussian and exponential distribution methods according to Tables 3 and Figures 4

Conclusion
Dioxin is a term with the formula C12H4Cl4O2 for a family of organic chlorinated compounds, some of which are highly toxic, even in small amounts. At the beginning of this study, due to the importance of pollution from PVC production and waste management, using the LCA method, the environmental effects during the production of the compound were evaluated.
The results showed that 2056,826 grams of pollutants are generated per kilogram of PVC production. Also, about 5% of