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SEMINAR PUBLICATION: OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE COMBUSTION DEVICES

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U.S. EPA. SEMINAR PUBLICATION: OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE COMBUSTION DEVICES. EPA/625/R-93/008, 1993.

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The information in the document is based on presentations at the EPA-sponsored seminar series on Operational Parameters for Hazardous Waste Combustion Devices. This series consisted of five seminars held in 1992. Hazardous waste combustion devices are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) under the following provisions:

    • 40 CFR part 264, subpart Q— Permitted Incinerator Standards.
    • 40 CFR part 265, subpart O— Interim Status Incinerator Standards.
    • 40 CFR part 266, subpart H— Permitted and Interim Status BIF Standards.
    • 40 CFR part 270— Permitting Requirements.
The RCRA regulations require that all hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities be permitted before being constructed. An exception is that existing facilities can continue to operate until EPA or authorized states make permit decisions.

Under section 264.340, certain incinerators that burn waste defined as hazardous based only on ignitability, corrosivity, or reactivity characteristics are exempted from most of the incinerator permit requirements. If the waste has either no or insignificant concentrations of Appendix VIII constituents, the facility can be exempted from all of the permit requirements except for waste analysis and closure. (Appendix VIII of part 261 consists of a list of hazardous constituents, their chemical abstract names and numbers, and their hazardous waste numbers.)

Three types of hazardous waste combustion devices are regulated under RCRA: incinerators, boilers, and industrial furnaces. Different standards apply to incinerators than to BIFs (U.S. EPA, 1992).

Only enclosed devices with a direct flame are considered incinerators and are subject to subpart O incineration standards. Thermal treatment devices that are not enclosed or that operate without a direct flame and that are not BIFs are regulated under subpart X, which requires that miscellaneous units undergo an environmental assessment. To be classified an industrial furnace, a device must be specifically listed in the regulations. Section 260.10 of the regulations defines the terms incinerator and boiler and provides a list of 12 devices that currently are classified as industrial furnaces. In general, for a facility to be classified an industrial furnace, it must produce a marketable product (e.g., a cement kiln must produce marketable cement).

Record Details:

Record Type:DOCUMENT( EPA PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS)
Product Published Date:02/14/1994
Record Last Revised:10/01/2008
OMB Category:Other
Record ID: 125072