Start-up experience at the Robbins Resource Recovery Facility while focusing on the environment
- Foster Wheeler Power Systems, Inc., Clinton, NJ (United States)
- Foster Wheeler Illinois, Inc., Robbins, IL (United States)
In early November, 1996, a new generation of advanced combustion technology using circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers began continuous operation in Robbins, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The Robbins Waste-to-Energy and Recycling Facility processes a minimum of 1,600 Tons-per-day of Municipal Solid Waste. Approximately 400 tons-per-day of waste will be recycled with the remaining 1200 tons fed to one of two 600 ton-per-day circulating fluidized bed steam generating units. The Robbins Facility is designed and operates with the most advanced pollution control equipment. Foster Wheeler and facility personnel, in conjunction with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Cook County Department of Environmental Control, have undertaken a number of programs to optimize environmental performance at the facility, including an on-going, aggressive ambient air monitoring program using a chemical mass balance model and ambient air mercury testing. This paper provides an overview of the design, approach to start-up, actual experiences to date, and the overall operations of the Robbins Facility with emphasis on the monitoring programs and environmental controls.
- 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., 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:
- 548951
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970440--; ON: DE97007054
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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