Performance assessment of incinerators and high-temperature industrial processes disposing hazardous waste in the United States

Technical Report · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5329006

Oppelt, E T

Since 1982, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been conducting performance assessments of hazardous-waste thermal-destruction facilities in the United States. The principal objective of these tests has been to characterize emissions and determine if these facilities are capable of meeting the waste-destruction and control requirements of the current EPA regulations and standards. To date, the test program has involved performance assessments at nine incinerators and over twenty high temperature industrial processes employing hazardous waste as a fuel supplement in their operations. The testing has typically involved stack emissions assessment for SOx, NOx, particulate, HC1, CO, CO/sub 2/, O/sub 2/, metals, total hydrocarbon, and quantification of specific organic compound emissions.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (USA). Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5329006
• Report Number(s): PB-86-216488/XAB; EPA/600/D-86/133
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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