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Main Title Cost comparisons of selected technologies for the control of sulfur dioxide from copper smelters /
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Burckle, John O.
CORP Author PEI Associates, Inc., Cincinnati, OH.;Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Lab.
Publisher GPO,
Year Published 1985
Report Number EPA/600/2-85/068; EPA-68-03-3197
Stock Number PB85-215705
Subjects Smelting--Environmental aspects--United States ; Sulfur dioxide--Environmental aspects--United States ; Copper--Refining--Environmental aspects ; Copper--Refining--By-products ; Sulphur dioxide--Environmental aspects--United States ; Air--Pollution--United States ; Copper--United States
Additional Subjects Air pollution control ; Sulfur dioxide ; Smelters ; Cost analysis ; Particles ; Trace elements ; Technology ; Sources ; Mathematical models ; Oxygen melting ; Furnaces ; Revision ; Scrubbing ; Process charting ; Design criteria ; Capitalized costs ; Copper smelters ; Air pollution economics ; Fugitive emissions ; Wet methods
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NTIS  PB85-215705 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 284 pages : illustrations
Abstract The U.S. nonferrous metals production industry is a significant contributor of sulfur dioxide, trace metal, and particulate air emissions. Most of the domestic copper smelting capacity is based on obsolescent technology that is both capital-and energy-intensive and hampered by considerable emission control problems. Because systems used to control sulfur dioxide emissions also must remove particulate contaminants, effective control of total particulate and trace element emissions is accomplished as a 'byproduct' of sulfur dioxide control. The sulfuric acid plant, when it can be operated under autothermal conditions, is recognized as the technology of choice for controlling sulfur dioxide emissions from smelters. Unfortunately, much of the problem of sulfur dioxide control in the nonferrous industry is associated with the weak sulfur dioxide off-gas streams. Because weak sulfur dioxide streams do not permit autothermal acid plant operation, they cannot be economically controlled by acid plant technology. In copper smelting, the major sources of weak sulfur dioxide off-gases are the reverberatory furnace and multihearth roaster, followed by fugitive emissions that emanate from the converter operation, matte tapping, slag tapping, and ladle transfer. The status of development and use of a number of technologies for wet scrubbing and for process changes based on oxygen smelting technologies were evaluated to determine which could be considered promising candidates for near-term application for sulfur dioxide control at domestic smelters. Cost models were developed for those processes believed to be sufficiently promising for such application.
Notes "June 1985." "EPA/600/2-85/068." "Project officer John Burckle." "Contract No. 68-03-3197." Microfiche.
Place Published Cincinnati, OH :
Corporate Au Added Ent Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory.
PUB Date Free Form {1985}
NTIS Prices PC A13/MF A01
BIB Level m
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20011214164907
Language eng
Origin NTIS
Type MERGE
OCLC Rec Leader 01226nam 2200301Ka 45020