ARB evaluation test conducted on a hospital-waste incinerator at Los Angeles Co. , USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Technical report

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6487766

McCormack, J; Ouchida, P; Lew, G

A series of emission tests were conducted on a small hospital waste incinerator. The small hospital waste incinerator burns less than 100 pounds per hour of infectious hospital waste and burns a total of no more than 300 pounds per day. Hospital waste incinerators previously tested by the ARB were rated at 600 to 1000 pounds per hour. The small incinerator is manually charged and cleaned. The objectives of the incinerator emission test were to characterize criteria and select non-criteria air pollutants released to the atmosphere. The criteria air pollutants were carbon monoxide, total hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen. In addition, CO2, PM, and O2 were measured. Some of the select non-criteria air pollutants included dioxins, furans, PCBs, semi-volatile organics, volatile organics, hydrogen chloride, hexavalent chromium, and mercury.

• Research Organization: California State Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA (USA). Monitoring and Lab. Div.
• OSTI ID: 6487766
• Report Number(s): PB-90-259946/XAB; ARB/ML--90-029
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR POLLUTION
AROMATICS
BUILDINGS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
CHROMIUM
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
DIOXIN
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELEMENTS
FURANS
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HOSPITALS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCHLORIC ACID
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INCINERATORS
INORGANIC ACIDS
MANAGEMENT
MATTER
MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS
MERCURY
METALS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PARTICULATES
PERFORMANCE TESTING
POLLUTION
PROGRESS REPORT
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
TESTING
TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
VOLATILE MATTER
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT