Tire derived fuel and thermal waste incineration commercial operation in coal fired cyclone units
- Illinois Power, Baldwin, IL (United States). Baldwin Power Station
- Illinois Power, Decatur, IL (United States). Decatur Headquarters
In an effort to clean up and dispose of former manufactured gas plant site wastes, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued an experimental permit to Illinois Power to conduct a test burn of coal tar and coal tar impacted soil. An experimental permit was required because this was the first time in Illinois that gas manufacturing residues had been burned in a power plant boiler, even though it has been done in other states with great success. The USEPA, the Illinois EPA, and Illinois Power believe the most efficient way to clean up these wastes is to use a method that permanently reduces or removes threats to health and the environment. After completing successful test burns and providing results to the Illinois EPA and USEPA, Illinois Power petitioned for and was granted an environmental permit to construct and operate a commercial incineration facility to supplement the fuel on two coal fired cyclone units. This technical paper examines the processing, testing and effectiveness of the commercial operation to date. A comprehensive health and safety plan along with a results study to establish an improved permanent operation at the Baldwin Plant will be contained.
- OSTI ID:
- 211775
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951010-; ISBN 0-7918-1486-6; TRN: 96:009864
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International joint power generation conference and exposition, Minneapolis, MN (United States), 8-12 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1995 international joint power generation conference -- Volume 1: Environmental control/fuels and combustion technologies. EC-Volume 3; FACT-Volume 20; Frazier, W.F.; Smouse, S.M. [eds.]; PB: 521 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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