Organic emissions from combustion of plywood and particleboard
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Large amounts of wood, wood waste and manufactured wood products are burned on grates to produce process heat and electricity in industrial boilers. Industrial combustion chambers generate high temperatures for relatively long residence times, however emissions of volatile organic substances are of concern if the residence time, temperature and turbulence are inadequate. The typical industrial plant does not measure volatile organic emissions, but does measure oxygen and carbon monoxide concentrations. With sufficient excess O{sub 2} and low enough CO, the organic emissions are thought to be acceptably low. For example, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources specifies good combustion practice as CO less than 600 ppm corrected to 7 % oxygen plus temperatures greater than 675{degrees}C for 1.0 s. The purpose of this project was to determine the adequacy of this criteria with respect to volatile organic emissions for selected wood and manufactured wood products in a laboratory combustor.
- OSTI ID:
- 420624
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950801-; ISSN 0569-3772; TRN: 97:000005-0060
- Journal Information:
- Preprints of Papers, American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, Vol. 40, Issue 3; Conference: 210. national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Chicago, IL (United States), 20-25 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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