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Show DIOXIN, FORAN, PARTICULATE AND TRACE METAL EMISSIONS FROM MUNICIPAL REFUSH INCINERATORS INTRODUCTION By : MILTON R . BEYCHOK for presentation at the AMERICAN FLAME RESEARCH COMMITTEE ' S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INCINERATION OF HAZARVOUS, MUNICIPAL AND OTHER WASTES Palm Sprlnas, California November 1987 Page 1 Disposal of municipal refuse is becoming a major problem for many areas of the nation. As one possible solution of that problem, largescale incineration of municipal refuse has been proposed and many such proposals are under active consideration by various cities. In fact, many of those proposals are currently seeking regulatory approvals and permits. Thus, much effort is being devoted to evaluating .the public health and environmental impacts of refuse incinerators. Reluted to such efforts, there is a need for reliable data on the emission of air pollutants from refuse incineration. To that end, the purpose of this paper is to present a reliable data base of the dioxin, furan, particulate and trace metal emissions from municipal refuse incinerators. The emission data presented herein are based on over 30 published reports of refuse incineration emission testing programs conducted in Europe, Japan, Canada and the United States during the past 7-8 years. A total of 170 individual tests at 28 different incinerators were involved in the various published reports. DHYHLOPMKNT OF THE DATA BASH A study of the published emission test. reports made it clear that the various test results were not reported on a common and comparative basis. Therefore, the first steps in developing the data base were to excerpt the pertinent results from each of the published test reports and to normalize them to a comparative basis. Then, individual tables of the normalized data excerpts from each of the test reports were developed to support the final data base. An appendix was also developed which documents exactly which data were excerpted from each of the test reports. The appendix also documents the detailed methodology, including example calculations, used in normalizing each of the data excerpts. The final data base presented in this paper was derived from the normalized data excerpts, and many of the final data base tables refer to the data excerpt tables. However, purely for the sake of brevity, the data excerpt tables and the documenting appendix are not i nc luded in this paper. Negotiations are currently underway to publish the data base , the supporting data excerpts and the documenting appendix as an integrated report to a regulatory agency. Hopefully, that integrated report may become available in the near future. |
