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OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH AT THE U.S. EPA INCINERATION RESEARCH FACILITY: ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY94
Citation:
Waterland, L. OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH AT THE U.S. EPA INCINERATION RESEARCH FACILITY: ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY94. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-95/071 (NTIS 95-249504), 1995.
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Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Incineration Research Facility (IRF) in Jefferson, Arkansas, is an experimental facifity that houses a pilot-scale rotary kiln incineration system (RKS) and the associated waste handling, emission control, process control, and safety equipment; as well as onsite laboratory facifities. During fiscal year 1994 (FY94), two major test programs were completed at the IRF and a third carried through to near-completion. Incineration testing of fluff waste and contaminated soil from the M. W. Manufacturing Superfund site in Region Ill was completed as the first major test program. Testing to demonstrate that the baffistic missile liquid propellant components unsymmetrical dimethyihydrazine fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer can be safely incinerated while complying with the U.S. environmental regulations, as well as those of the two former Soviet Union states, the Ukraine and Russia, was the second major test program. The third major test program underway in FY94 was a Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) of the pulse combustion burner technology developed by Sonotech, Inc. This test program was carried through the completion of all but the last few of the planned 12 extensive tests. Two bench-scale incineration test programs were also completed in the thermal treatment unit (TU) at the facffity: an evaluation of the effectiveness of sorbents as additives for metals capture, and a comparative evaluation of TTU performance in treating contaminated soil from the M. W. Manufacturing site. Plans were also developed for a set of bench-scale treatability tests of contaminated materials from the Southern Shipbuilding Superfund site, and a pilot-scale treatability study of direct-fired thermal desorption applied to contaminated soils from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
