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Main Title Evaluation of At-Sea Disposal of FGC (Flue Gas Cleaning) Wastes. Volume 2. Biological Testing and Studies with Stabilized Wastes.
Author Cooper, C. B. ; Bodek, I. ; Santhanam, C. J. ;
CORP Author Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab.
Year Published 1984
Report Number EPA-68-03-2334; EPA/600/7-85/001B;
Stock Number PB85-156198
Additional Subjects Solid waste disposal ; Air pollution control ; Sludge disposal ; Toxicity ; Bioassay ; Flue gases ; Assessments ; Industrial wastes ; Combustion products ; Sulfates ; Metals ; Water pollution ; Exposures ; Sediments ; Trace elements ; Stability ; Ocean waste disposal ; Biological processes ; Path of pollutants
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NTIS  PB85-156198 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
This two-part report is the third of a series on a continuing EPA research program on the feasibility of disposing of flue gas cleaning (FGC) wastes in the ocean. Part 1 gives results of laboratory-scale chemical and biological experiments with untreated (unstablized) FGC wastes designed to provide basic data on environmental impact potential. Part 2 gives results of further chemical and biological tests with a forced-oxidation (sulfate-rich) FGC waste and with stabilized FGC wastes. Results of tests performed to date and related assessment efforts indicate that the conventional (concentrated-dump) at-sea disposal of unstabilized FGC wastes with soil-like properties on the Continental Shalf appears to be environmentally undesirable, unless contradicted by further work. Test results also indicate that at-sea dispersed disposal of sulfate-rich (and, possibly, sulfit-rich) soil-like FGC wastes is sufficiently promising to merit further research. Likewise, results of this and other programs indicate that convetional or concentrated disposal of brick-like stabilized FGC wastes is also promising.