Combustion and incineration processes

✍ Scribed by Niessen, Walter R

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 708
• Series: Environmental science and pollution control series 25
• Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and expanded
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covering each aspect of an incineration facility, from contaminant receipt and storage to stack discharge and dispersion, this reference explores the operation and evaluation of incineration systems for hazardous and non-hazardous gaseous, liquid, sludge, and solid wastes. Highlighting breakthroughs in air pollution control, the book discusses advances in materials handling, waste processing, refractory and materials engineering, combustion technology, and energy recovery to reduce and control toxins and pollutants in the environment. It includes a disk containing spreadsheets for practical analyses of waste characteristics and combustion systems

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Stoichiometry --
Selected topics on combustion processes --
Waste characterization --
Combustion system enclosures and heat recovery --
Fluid flow considerations in incinerator applications --
Materials preparation and handling --
Incineration systems for municipal solid wastes --
Incineration systems for sludge wastes --
Incineration systems for liquid and gaseous wastes --
Incineration systems for hazardous wastes --
Other incineration systems --
Air pollution aspects of incineration processes --
Air pollution control for incineration systems --
Approaches to incinerator selection and design --
Appendix A: Symbols: a partial list --
Appendix B: Conversion factors --
Appendix C: Periodic table of elements --
Appendix D: Combustion properties of coal, oil, natural gas, and other materials --
Appendix F: Pyrometric cone equivalent --
Appendix G: Spreadsheet templates for use in heat and material --
Appendix H: Thermal stability indices.