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PILOT-SCALE EVALUATION OF THE THERMAL STABILITY POHC INCINERABILITY RANKING
Citation:
Lee, J., W. Whitworth, AND L. Waterland. PILOT-SCALE EVALUATION OF THE THERMAL STABILITY POHC INCINERABILITY RANKING. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-92/065 (NTIS PB92166966), 1992.
Description:
A test series were performed at the U.S. EPA Incineration Research Facility (IRF) to evaluate the thermal-stability-based principal organic hazardous constituent (POHC) incinerability ranking. ixtures of twelve POHCs with predicted incinerabilities spanning the range of most- to least-difficult-to-incinerate classes were combined with a clay-based sorbent matrix and fed to the facility's pilot-scale rotary kiln incinerator. iln operating conditions were varied to include a baseline operating condition, three modes of attempted incineration failure, and a worst-case combination of the three failure modes. iln-exit POHC destruction and removal efficiencies (DREs) were in the 99.99% range for the volatile POHCs during the baseline, mixing failure and matrix failure tests. Semivolatile POHCs were not detected at the kiln exit for these tests; corresponding DREs were generally greater than 99.999%. he thermal failure and worst-case tests resulted in substantially decreased kiln-exit POHC DREs, ranging from less than 99% to greater than 99.999%. eneral agreement between measured and predicted relative kiln exit POHC DREs was observed for those two tests.
