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RECORD NUMBER: 4957 OF 5225| Main Title | Testing at NREL of the Minipilot Solar System for Hazardous Waste Thermal Destruction. | |||||||||||
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| Author | Gorman, P. ; Raile, M. ; | |||||||||||
| CORP Author | Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO.;National Risk Management Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Jan 97 | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1997 | |||||||||||
| Report Number | EPA-68-DO-0137; EPA/600/R-96/151; | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | PB97-130850 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Hazardous materials ; Solar furnaces ; Combustion efficiency ; Heat treatment ; Waste treatment ; Solar radiation ; Ultraviolet radiation ; Liquid wastes ; Combustion chambers ; Test chambers ; Air flow ; Flow rates ; Decontamination ; Air pollution sampling ; Combustion products ; Exhaust emissions ; Furans ; Dioxins ; Air pollution monitoring ; Design analysis ; Performance evaluation ; Feasibility studies ; Thermal destruction ; Volatile compounds ; Semivolatile organic compounds | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 204p | |||||||||||
| Abstract | A minipilot solar system (MSS) was built at MRI, transported to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and tested at NREL's high flux solar furnace. The MSS involved combustion of a liquid feed in a combustion reactor equipped with a quartz window at one end for solar input. Tests were carried out at two flow conditions, with nominal solar inputs of 8, 5, or 2 kW, as well as tests without solar input. The primary purpose of the test was to determine if the emission of Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHCs) and/or Products of Incomplete Combustion (PICs) from the MSS were significantly lower when operated with solar input, as compared to operation without solar input, at the same liquid and air input rates and the same operating temperature. |