Achieving 40 CFR part 60 subpart C{sub b} CO emission requirement on large RDF-fired municipal waste combustors
- HDR Engineering, Inc., Charlotte, NC (United States)
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless and odorless gas that is created when carbon based fuels are incompletely combusted. Some level of CO is produced in all practical carbon fuel combustion operations. Exposure to concentrations of CO above the permissible limit has been determined by the scientific community to be harmful to the general public. Congressional passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish concentration limits for CO as well as other products of the combustion process for affected facilities. As a result, the EPA recently promulgated 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart C{sub b} for existing Municipal Waste Combustors (MWC). Included in these new requirements will be a CO emission concentration limit. Eight large RDF plants were surveyed to characterize their ability (or inability) to meet the newly promulgated requirement for CO. The reported range of typical CO emission concentrations was from 50 to 400 ppmdv @ 7% O{sub 2}. Some units will not have difficulties meeting the new CO emission concentration limit and some will have to consider operational changes and possible equipment modifications to meet the new requirement. This paper attempts to define what equipment and operational characteristics allow for the performance differences observed and also identifies techniques that can be implemented to help compliance efforts.
- Research Organization:
- Solid Waste Association of North America, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Integrated Waste Services Association, Washington, DC (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Yonkers, NY (United States). Solid Waste Processing Div.; Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Air Pollution Technology Branch
- OSTI ID:
- 548933
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970440-; ON: DE97007054; TRN: 97:005590-0021
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. annual North American waste-to-energy conference and exhibition, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States), 22-25 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of fifth annual North American waste-to-energy conference; PB: 1102 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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