Emissions from sludge incinerators with venturi and tray scrubbers and wet electrostatic precipitators: Metals, chromium and nickel compounds, and organics

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6474633

Bostian, H E; DeWees, W G; Crumpler, E P; Lewis, F M

A comprehensive test program was developed to determine the ratios of hexavalent to total chromium and nickel subsulfide to total nickel for a typical municipal wastewater sludge incinerator under normal combustion conditions and improved combustion conditions. Emissions of metals, hexavalent chromium, nickel subsulfide, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans (PCDD/PCDFs), semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide (CO), and total hydrocarbons (THCs) from two multiple hearth incinerators and a fluidized bed incinerator were measured. The emissions were controlled at each unit with venturi scrubbers and, on two of the units, emissions from wet electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) were determined. Flue gas sampling was conducted at the inlet and outlet of the air pollution control devices at three separate sites. Gas concentrations, mass emission rates, metals-to-particulate ratios, and emissions factors were reported. Analytical results for the process samples were reported.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (United States). Risk Reduction Engineering Lab.
• OSTI ID: 6474633
• Report Number(s): PB-93-175487/XAB; EPA-600/A-93/067
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also PB--91-151522 and PB--92-151547
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
INCINERATORS
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
SLUDGES
WASTE PROCESSING
AROMATICS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
CHROMIUM
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS
FLUE GAS
FLUIDIZED BEDS
FURANS
GASEOUS WASTES
HERBICIDES
HYDROCARBONS
INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
METALS
NICKEL
NICKEL COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PARTICULATES
SAMPLING
SCRUBBERS
SEWAGE
WASTE WATER
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CONTROL
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LIQUID WASTES
MANAGEMENT
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PESTICIDES
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER
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