The correlation of SF6 destruction with principal organic hydrocarbon destruction in incineration processes

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5135080

England, W G; Teuscher, L H; Quon, S L ^[1]

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1. Tracer Technologies, San Diego, CA (US)

The purpose of this research effort was to determine the suitability of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) as a surrogate compound to measure DREs for POHCs. SF6 is relatively inexpensive and can be accurately monitored in real time by portable gas chromatography. For SF6 to be an appropriate surrogate for DRE measurement, three criteria must be met. The first is that the destruction of SF6 must be conservative when compared to other POHCs up to a POHC DRE limit of 0.9999. This would show that, given a certain amount of SF6 destruction, there would be at least that much POHC destruction. Secondly, it would be desirable to establish a relationship between SF6 destruction and POHC destruction. This would indicate that given a certain level of SF6 destruction, a corresponding level of POHC destruction would be known, Thirdly, given that a relationship is developed, it must be predictable for a variety of incinerator conditions for it to be useful. The goals of this project were to try to establish these criteria for POHCs by varying the combustor operating conditions of temperature and residence time. These are the two parameters that Tsang and Shaub predict affect DRE. The test program which was conducted consisted of burning SF6 concurrently with a POHC for three different temperature conditions at three different residence times; a total of nine conditions for each POHC. Three POHCs were chosen and tested: 1,1,1 Trichloroethane, Carbon Tetrachloride, and Chloroform.

• OSTI ID: 5135080
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA) Journal Volume: 1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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