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DEVELOPMENT OF PIC TARGET ANALYTE LIST FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATION PROCESSES (EPA/600/A-96/065)
Citation:
Ryan, J., P. Lemieux, C. Lutes, AND D. Tabor. DEVELOPMENT OF PIC TARGET ANALYTE LIST FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATION PROCESSES (EPA/600/A-96/065). 1996.
Description:
The paper discusses experiments that were performed to generate, collect, and characterize organic emissions from a pilot-scale rotary-kiln hazardous waste incinerator (HWI) using a complex, surrogate hazardous waste mixture in order to develop an analyte list representative of volatile, semivolatile organic HWI emissions that include products of incomplete combustion. Organic emissions were collected and analyzed using a combination of conventional and unconventional techniques. Emphasis was placed on expanding the capabilities of existing methodologies, such as gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy, to identify and quantify nontarget analytes. Analytes identified included: alkylated, chlorinated, brominated, and mixed bromochloro aromatics, alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes; chlorinated, brominated, mixed bromochloro, alkylated, oxygenated polyaromatic hydrocarbons; and chlorinated, brominated, mixed bromochloro dibenzodioxins and furans. Of the volatile and semivolatile organic species found, less than half have been identified. Less than a quarter of those found were actual test analytes.