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COMBUSTION CONTROL OF TRACE ORGANIC AIR POLLUTANTS FROM MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTORS
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Kilgroe*, J. COMBUSTION CONTROL OF TRACE ORGANIC AIR POLLUTANTS FROM MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTORS. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW 9(3):199-222, (1989).
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering the use of combustion techniques for controlling air emissions of chlorinated dioxins, chlorinated furans, and other trace organics from municipal waste combustion (MWC) facilities. Recommendations for good combustion practice (GCP) for controlling trace organics were initially published in June 1987. These recommendations provided key criteria for the design, operation, control, and verification (compliance testing) of three types of combustors: waterwall mass burn, refuse-derived fuel, and modular starved-air combustors. This paper provides a summary of the technical considerations on which the initial GCP were based. It also discusses current activities in revising the initial GCP and in developing GCP for other classes of municipal waste combustors. GCP is one of the pollution control options being considered for MWC air pollution standards. Standards which are to be applicable to new MWC facilities, and emission guidelines which are to be applicable to existing MWC facilities, are to be proposed in November 1989 and promulgated in December 1990.
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