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EMISSION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND COMBUSTION GASES DURING HAZARDOUSWASTE COFIRING IN A WATERTUBE PACKAGE BOILER
Citation:
Hinshaw, G., P. Murowchick, AND G. Huffman. EMISSION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND COMBUSTION GASES DURING HAZARDOUSWASTE COFIRING IN A WATERTUBE PACKAGE BOILER. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/D-90/086.
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The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the sorptionand desorption of organic compounds on combustion-generated sootduring the cofiring of hazardous organics with fuel oil in afull-scale boiler. orption of organics was accomplished by firinga watertube package boiler at very low load, under a "smoking"condition, while spiking hazardous organic compounds into fuel oil. This phase was followed by a "clean" fuel firing phase usingnatural gas to look for any "bleed-off" of POHCs and PICs. secondary objective of the study was to characterize PIC emissionsduring the various test conditions, which is the subject of thispaper. his paper has two major objectives: first, to evaluate andcharacterize Plc emissions from the combustion of specific POHGsand fuels, and second, to evaluate PIC and POHC emissions inrelation to the levels of combustion gases such as carbon monoxide(CO) and to total hydrocarbons (THCs), in order to determine theusefulness of those gases as surrogates for the emissions oforganic compounds.