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Title: Discovery and elimination of dioxins from a carbon reactivation process

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7193706

In a project done to ensure an environmentally acceptable granular activated carbon (GAC) adsorption and reactivation system - to be sure that chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (CDD's) and chlorinated dibenzo furans (CDF's) and combustion would not present problems - results from a GAC system receiving chlorinated water were compared with those receiving unchlorinated water. The studies described here are for exhausting GAC in a post-filtration carbon contactor and reactivating GAC in a fluid-bed reactivation system. Lower stack emissions of CDD's and CDF's are produced by reactivating GAC that had received unchlorinated water.

Research Organization:
Cincinnati Water Works, OH (USA)
OSTI ID:
7193706
Report Number(s):
PB-87-102356/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English