Nonfossil fuel fired industrial boilers: background information

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6846002

This document provides background information about air emissions and controlling these emissions for the nonfossil fuel fired boiler (NFFB) source category. This source category includes boilers firing wood, bagasse (sugar cane residue), municipal type solid waste, and refuse derived fuels. This document identifies the industries which use NFFBs and the numbers of new NFFBs expected to be built in 1982 through 1990. The uncontrolled emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides are quantified and factors affecting these emissions are discussed. State and Federal regulations which apply to the NFFB source category are summarized. Control technologies to reduce these emissions are identified and emission test data are presented. Factors which affect the performance of emission control technologies are also discussed. Finally, environmental, energy and cost impacts of applying these control technologies to nonfossil fuel fired boilers are presented and discussed. This information was developed in support of a potential new source performance standard for nonfossil fuel fired boilers.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• OSTI ID: 6846002
• Report Number(s): PB-82-203209
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
424000* -- Engineering-- Pollution Control Equipment-- (1980-1989)
500600 -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Regulations-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
BAGASSE
BOILERS
CHALCOGENIDES
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
CONTROL
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
EQUIPMENT
GASEOUS WASTES
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
ORGANIC WASTES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PERFORMANCE
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
REFUSE-FUELED BOILERS
STANDARDS
STATE GOVERNMENT
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
WASTES
WOOD