Evaluation of performance characteristics of emissions from hazardous-waste incinerators with a mobile laboratory

Technical Report · Fri Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5011507

Nolen, S L; Jackson, M D

The paper discusses the evaluation of performance characteristics of emissions from hazardous-waste incinerators with a mobile laboratory. Incinerators are permitted, under RCRA, to burn hazardous waste. Because of the interest in monitoring incinerator performance on a real-time basis, the EPA designed and built a mobile laboratory for on-site monitoring of hazardous-waste-incinerator emissions and operating parameters. The result, the Hazardous Air Pollutants Mobile Laboratory (HAPML), is equipped with monitors for on-line analysis of inorganic and organic stack-gas emissions. The HAPML has demonstrated its usefulness in a field test of an industrial boiler co-firing hazardous waste. The field test showed that combustion efficiency (CE) may have potential for use as an incinerator performance indicator.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5011507
• Report Number(s): PB-86-230851/XAB; EPA-600/D-86/168
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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500200* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
FIELD TESTS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
INCINERATORS
LABORATORIES
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTS
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
TESTING
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT