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PRELIMINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF COMBUSTION MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES: VOLUME II. TECHNICAL RESULTS
Citation:
Mason, H., A. Shimizu, J. Ferrell, G. Poe, AND L. Waterland. PRELIMINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF COMBUSTION MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES: VOLUME II. TECHNICAL RESULTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-77/119b.
Description:
The report gives preliminary methodologies, data compilation, and program priorities for assessing stationary combustion sources and NOx combustion modification technologies. Equipment characterizations and multimedia emission inventories are presented for utility and industrial boilers, commercial and residential warm air furnaces, gas turbines, IC engines, industrial processes, and advanced combustion processes. Control costs and operational, energy, and environmental impacts are compiled and discussed for current and emerging combustion modification NOx controls. Incremental emissions of CO, HC, and particulate due to NOx controls can be minimized through control development engineering. Other effluents (POMs, segregating trace metals, and sulfates) show potential for increased emissions with some combustion modifications. Significant data gaps in emissions and impacts of multimedia pollutants, with and without NOx controls, are noted. Program priorities for field tests and process studies to augment the data base are presented.