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Show AFRC Meeting October 8-10, 1990 San Francisco, CA (USA) International Symposium on NOx control, Yaste incineration, and oxygen enriched combustion --------*-------- AFRC90 Paper #16 NOx Formation in glass melting furnace Modeling and laboratory scale experimental results S rnf t ~ { O. CHARON(*), D. JOUVAUD(*), C. Mc. GEEVER(**) (*) AIR LIQUIDE Research Center Claude-Delorme BP 126, les Loges en Josas 78350 Jouy en Josas France ( ** ) LIQUID AIR Corporation Technical Center Countryside, IL 60525 USA I Introduction Regulation concerning pollutant emissions from industrial furnaces is becoming more and more stringent. Today, lawers are especially focusing on SOx' NOx' Chlorinated species and particulates emissions. The EEC directive 88/609/CEE (french official Journal ) [1] makes governments obliged to include in their national regulation the following limits regarding the NOx emissions from the new large combustion plants ( > 50 MY ) : Table 1: EEC NOx emission regulations for greater than 50 MY . combustion plant I q 8 8 nature of fuel Solid Solid ( Volatil matter < 10% ) Liquid Gas Limit 650 mg/Nm3 1300 mg/Nm3 450 mg/Nm3 350 mg/Nm3 Industry is also concerned by this limit (AQA taxes in France, TA-luft and GFAVO in RFA, State regulations in U.S.A). As a example, the admited goal of the BMU ( Bundesministerium fur Umweltbundesschutz I....) |