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OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH AT THE U.S. EPA INCINERATION RESEARCH FACILITY: ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY94
Citation:
Waterland, L. OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH AT THE U.S. EPA INCINERATION RESEARCH FACILITY: ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY94. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-95/071.
Description:
Fiscal year 1994 (FY94, October 1, 1993 through September 30,1994) saw the continuation of incineration research testing efforts at the IRF. uring the year, two major pilot-scale programs were completed and a third carried to near-completion, and two bench-scale test programs of lesser scope were completed. ne major test program to evaluate incineration as a treatment option for fluff waste and contaminated soil from the M.W. Manufacturing Superfund site in Region 3 was completed. nother test program, a Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) of art innovative pulse combustion burner technology developed by Sonotech, Inc., was initiated and nearly completed. ne third major test program underway during FY94 directly supported the Defense Nuclear Agency's (DNA's) efforts to assist two former Soviet Union (FSU) states comply with strategic offensive arms elimination schedules negotiated in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). his test program established that the two ballistic missile liquid propellant components, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer could be separately destroyed in an incinerator safely, and with flue gas emissions that would meet U.S. Environmental regulations as well as those of the Ukraine and Russia.