Abstract
ABSTRACT
Eastman Kodak Company owns and operates a hazardous waste incinerator at the Kodak Park Site facility, located in Rochester, New York. The incinerator consists of a rotary kiln followed by a secondary combustion chamber. Particulate and HCl control is provided by a quench chamber and a venturi scrubber. In May, 1991, a Trial Burn Plan was submitted for the incinerator as part of the NYS Hazardous Waste Management Facility Permit Application process. A key requirement of the Trial Burn was to demonstrate the hazardous waste incinerator's ability to control heavy metal emissions. To achieve this, an aqueous metals test protocol was developed to evaluate the incinerator's metals control capability under worst case conditions. Prior to the actual Trial Burn, an extensive metals pretest program was conducted at the facility to evaluate the incinerator metals control capability as a function of metal species, metals feedrate, waste chlorine content and combustion chamber temperatures. As a result of this program it was demonstrated that the high pressure differential venturi scrubber effectively controls emissions of heavy metals to levels prescribed in USEPA Guidance. Also, the program demonstrated the impact that combustion chamber temperatures and waste chlorine content have on incinerator metals control capability.
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