CHEMOMETRIC APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL-PROBLEMS CONCERNING PCDD AND PCDF - DATA INTERPRETATION AND SOURCE CORRELATION - MECHANISMS OF FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION IN MSW COMBUSTION PROCESS

The role of multivariate analysis methods in evaluating, rationalizing , and working out complex environmental problems is discussed. The dis cussion is organized in two sections; a literature analysis of the app lication of chemometric methods to PCDD/PCDF data interpretation and s ource correlation and a review of the role of chemometric methods in a nalysing the results obtained by the Authors studying PCDD/PCDF format ion and destruction mechanisms in MSW combustion processes.