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Main Title Fractional efficiency of an electric arc furnace baghouse /
Author Cass, Reed W.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Langley, John E.,
CORP Author GCA Corp., Bedford, Mass. GCA Technology Div.;Industrial Environmental Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Publisher Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service,
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA 600-7-77-023; GCA-TR-76-34-G; EPA-68-02-1438
Stock Number PB-266 912
OCLC Number 04087120
ISBN pbk.
Subjects Electric arc ; Filters and filtration ; electric arcs
Additional Subjects Air pollution control equipment ; Air filters ; Iron and steel industry ; Flue gases ; Electric arc furnaces ; Performance evaluation ; Samplers ; Monitoring ; Impactors ; Fines ; Fluorides ; Tables(Data) ; Particle size distribution ; Industrial wastes ; Combustion products ; Mass ; Concentration(Composition) ; Graphic methods ; Fabric filters ; Air pollution sampling ; Baghouses
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EJBD  EPA 600-7-77-023 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 01/16/2020
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-7-77-023 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ESAD  EPA 600-7-77-023 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-266 912 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
The report gives results of an evaluation of the performance of a fabric filter system controlling emissions from either one or two 30-ton electric arc furnaces producing a high-strength, low-alloy specialty steel. The evaluation involved measuring the system's total mass collection efficiency and apparent fractional collection efficiency. Testing involved 8 sampling days with one furnace operating, and 2 days with two furnaces. Baghouse influent and effluent streams were sampled with total mass samplers, inertial impactors, a condensation nuclei counter (CNC), and an optical dust counter. The influent and effluent total fluoride concentrations were measured for three of the tests to estimate the particulate and gaseous fluoride levels to which the Dacron filter bags are exposed during normal service. Total mass tests showed baghouse mean mass efficiency to be 97.9% with one furnace operating, and 98.7% with two furnaces. Mean mass concentrations for one- and two-furnace operation were 0.0014 and 0.0019 grains/dscf, respectively. Influent impactor tests showed considerable size distribution differences as a function of the phase of the process: the greatest concentrations for the particles sized occurred during the first melt. Effluent impactor size distribution tests suggested agglomeration. (Portions of this document are not fully legible.)
Notes
Contract no. 68-02-1438, task 4, program element no. EHE624. "EPA 600-7-77-023." "March 1977." Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (page 56).