Combustion of Contaminated Animal Carcasses in a Pilot-scale Air Curtain Burner
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Combustion of Contaminated Animal Carcasses in a Pilot-scale Air Curtain Burner. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-13/109, 2013.
Impact/Purpose:
Tests were run on a pilot-scale Air Curtain Burner (ACB) burning a combination of wood and poultry carcasses inoculated with Geobacillus Stearothermophilus as a surrogate for pathogenic Foreign Animal Disease organisms. The objective of the tests was to evaluate whether pathogens might be released from an ACB system as air emissions or in ash of the ACB as the ACB’s operations began to degrade due to operational issues, or whether effective pathogen destruction still occurred in spite of potentially increased air emissions from the ACB due to operational issues.
Description:
Report
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Combustion of Contaminated Animal Carcasses in a Pilot-scale Air Curtain Burner (PDF, NA pp, 24505 KB, about PDF)Record Details:
Record Type:DOCUMENT( PUBLISHED REPORT/ REPORT)
Product Published Date:08/01/2013
Record Last Revised:08/12/2013
OMB Category:Other
Record ID:
258204