St. Louis demonstration final report: refuse processing plant equipment, facilities, and environmental evaluations

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5346313· OSTI ID:5346313

Fiscus, D E; Gorman, P G; Schrag, M P; Shannon, L J

The results are presented of processing plant evaluations of the St. Louis-Union Electric Refuse Fuel Project, including equipment and facilities as well as assessment of environmental emissions at both the processing and the power plants. Data on plant material flows and operating parameters, plant operating costs, characteristics of plant material flows, and emissions from various processing operations were obtained during a testing program encompassing 53 calendar weeks. Refuse derived fuel (RDF) is the major product (80.6% by weight) of the refuse processing plant, the other being ferrous metal scrap, a marketable by-product. Average operating costs for the entire evaluation period were $8.26/Mg ($7.49/ton). The average overall processing rate for the period was 168 Mg/8-h day (185.5 tons/8-h day) at 31.0 Mg/h (34.2 tons/h). Future plants using an air classification system of the type used at the St. Louis demonstration plant will need an emissions control device for particulates from the large de-entrainment cyclone. Also in the air exhaust from the cyclone were total counts of bacteria and viruses several times higher than those of suburban ambient air. No water effluent or noise exposure problems were encountered, although landfill leachate mixed with ground water could result in contamination, given low dilution rates.

• Research Organization: Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5346313
• Report Number(s): EPA-600/2-77-155a; ON: DE82901403
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
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BOILER FUELS
CLASSIFICATION
COST
DEMONSTRATION PLANTS
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
EVALUATION
FEDERAL REGION VII
FUELS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
IRON
METALS
MISSOURI
NORTH AMERICA
OPERATING COST
POWER PLANTS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
REFUSE DERIVED FUELS
REFUSE-FUELED POWER PLANTS
SCRAP
SCRAP METALS
SOLID WASTES
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
USA
WASTE PROCESSING PLANTS
WASTES