On the Relationship Between CO, POHC, and PIC Emissions from a Simulated Hazardous Waste Incinerator

Numerical Simulation of the Thermal Destruction of Some Chlorinated C1 and C2 Hydrocarbons

“…14 Increases in emissions have also been associated with the "transient puffs" of waste vapor that result when containers of waste burst inside rotary kiln incinerators. 15 The creation of stable combustion byproducts, and its dependence on temperature and composition, has been explored in experiments involving burner flames, 6 small controlled-temperature flow reactors, 16 and turbulent flame reactors; 17 ' 18 these laboratory-scale experiments provide insight into the incinerator conditions under which PICs are formed.…”

Observations on Waste Destruction in Liquid Injection Incinerators

“…Since the data of Staley et al (1989) were obtained under high efficiency conditions, they also would be expected to show the same random fluctuations in waste destruction efficiency, and therefore show no correlation with CO. We term this mode of waste emission Random Failure and define it as that waste release that occurs only under isolated turbulent events. The CO emissions are unlikely to correlate with waste emissions, for CO emission is a much more continuous process under these conditions, i.e, the random events that give rise to CO release are much more numerous than the number that allow release of individual waste compounds.…”

“…Figure 5 replots all of the data of Figure 4, but on a linear axis. Note that this compresses the data of Staley et al (1989) into the origin. This figure thus focuses on the low waste destruction efficiency zone of Figure 3.…”

“…One set was reactor shown in Figure I (LaFond et al, 1985) while the other is from an almost identical unit (Staley et al, 1989). These data sets are plotted as Figure 4.…”

An Evalution of Emissions from Laminar,Underventilated Hydrocarbon Diffusion Flames

“…Over the past decade numerous researchers (Wolbach and Garman, 1984;Staley, 1985;LaFond, 1985;Staley, 1989) have investigated the relationships between CO, TUHCs, and PICs. A majority of these studies have concluded that neither CO or TUHCs strongly correlate with ORE, or emitted PIC concentrations.…”