Incineration of solid waste

✍ Scribed by Lee, C. C. ;Huffman, George L.

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 888 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0278-4491
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.3300080312

✦ Synopsis

The concern over solid waste disposal and dump-site clean-up resulted in the passage of three major U.S. environmental laws. They are the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, Public Law 94-580, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, Public Law 94-469, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, Public Law 96-510. The implementation of these three laws has intens$ed incineration research, because incineration represents the highest degree of destruction and environmental control possible f o r various waste types. This paper reviews the fundamentals of incineration and provides an incinerator design example to show how combustion fundamentals are applied to an incineration system.