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WOOD PRODUCTS IN THE WASTE STREAM: CHARACTERIZATION AND COMBUSTION EMISSIONS - VOLUME 2. APPENDICES
Citation:
Atkins, R. AND C. Donovan. WOOD PRODUCTS IN THE WASTE STREAM: CHARACTERIZATION AND COMBUSTION EMISSIONS - VOLUME 2. APPENDICES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-96/119b, 1996.
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Description:
The report gives results of a study of technical, public policy, and regulatory issues that affect the processing and combustion of waste wood for fuel. (NOTE: Waste wood is wood that is separated from a solid-waste stream, processed into a uniform-sized product, and reused for other purposes, such as fuel.) The report provides data to enable environmental regulators, project developers, and others to make informed decisions on the use of waste-wood materials as a combustion resource. It identifies potential environmental problems and solutions, including combustion system operating parameters and air pollution control technologies that can minimize emissions of identified air and solid-waste contaminants from the combustion of waste wood. The report: (1) identifies the quantity and quality of waste wood; (2) characterizes waste-wood processing and combustion facilities; (3) characterizes representative waste-wood samples; and (4) gives results of analyses of collected emissions data from operating combustion facilities. Described waste wood includes: pallets; construction and demolition waste; wood treated with paints, stains, preservatives, pesticides, or fungicides; and wood containing glues, binders, resins, plastics, or vinyl. Report available at NTIS as PB93198968.