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Show CONCLUSIONS The results of the preliminary testing of the pyretron Thermal Destruction System at EPA's pilot scale incineration facilities have proved the feasibility of this new technology and the use of oxygen to: -Safely and reliably increase throughput capacities in incineration facilites while achieving the required DRE; -Eliminate transient releases of POHCs and PIGs into the environment during upsets in the operation of incineration systems; -Increase the weight of batch charges without creating operational overload conditions; and -Achieve destruction efficiencies well above required destruction levels for exceptionally hazardous materials. Further efforts are needed to create an operational data base in order to draw final quantitative conclusions about the capabilities of the pyretron Thermal Destruction System. Such efforts are now underway as a part of the demonstration of this system under EPA's SITE program at the Combustion Research Facility in Jefferson, Arkansas. A PIRAL ROTE Over the last year and a half, ACI has been engaged in a cooperative effort to develop the pyretron Thermal Destruction System with two research groups within the EPA: the Combustion Research Facility under the Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory in Cincinnatti, Ohio and the Combustion Research Branch of the Air and Engineering Research Laboratory located at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. These groups have provided invaluable assistance to ACI in the development of the system and we look forward to an ongoing working relationship with these organizations in further development efforts. References: 1. Clark W., Lanier W.S., Richter W., Sheldon M., Seeker W.R., The Potential of Oxygen Enrichment in Hazardous Waste Incineration, Energy and Environmental Research Corporation, Irvine, California, August 1985. 2. Acharya P., Incineration of Hazardous Waste in a Mobile System, International Symposium on Alternative Fuels and Hazardous Waste, 1984. 3. Gitman G., Pyretron, System, 1986 Symposium April 1986. A Variable Gas /Oxygen/Air Combustion on Industrial Combustion Technologies , |