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DEMONSTRATION BULLETIN: CYCLONE FURNACE SOIL VITRI- FICATION TECHNOLOGY - BABCOCK & WILCOX
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Science Applications International Corporation. DEMONSTRATION BULLETIN: CYCLONE FURNACE SOIL VITRI- FICATION TECHNOLOGY - BABCOCK & WILCOX. EPA/540/MR-92/011, 1992.
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Babcock and Wilcox's (B&W) cyclone furnace is an innovative thermal technology which may offer advantages in treating soils containing organics, heavy metals, and/or radionuclide contaminants. The furnace used in the SITE demonstration was a 4- to 6-million Btu/hr pilot system. The test facility, shown in Figure 1, is fired by a scaled-down version of B&Ws commercial cyclone furnace. It is water-cooled and simulates the geometry of B&W's single cyclone, front-wall-fired cyclone boiler. This furnace is typical of full-scale, coal-fired cyclone units in regard to furnace/convection gas temperature profiles and residence times, NOX levels, cyclone slagging potential, ash retention in the slag, unburned carbon and flyash particle size.