In recent years since enactment of the NSPS, carbon injection has significantly reduced mercury emissions from MSW units. What is not well known is that carbon injection has also resulted in further unintentional reductions in PCDDs/PCDFs emissions from MSW emissions. These emissions reductions have taken place on a mass basis as well as a TEF weighted basis. The latter have been more pronounced on a percent reduction basis owing to changes in the PCDDs/PCDFs profile directly attributable to preferential adsorption of selected 2,3,7,8-substituted congeners on activated carbon injected in the gas stream for mercury removal. These lower molecular weight congeners are typically present in the gas phase and contribute more significantly to the TEF weighted sum.
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15th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference
May 21–23, 2007
Miami, Florida, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Environmental Engineering Division and Solid Waste Processing Division
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0-7918-4789-6
PROCEEDINGS PAPER
PCDDs/PCDFs in MSW Emissions: Pre and Post Mercury Control — A Comparison of Profiles
Gary T. Hunt
Gary T. Hunt
TRC Environmental, Lowell, MA
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Gary T. Hunt
TRC Environmental, Lowell, MA
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NAWTEC15-009, pp. 17-18; 2 pages
Published Online:
June 5, 2009
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Hunt, GT. "PCDDs/PCDFs in MSW Emissions: Pre and Post Mercury Control — A Comparison of Profiles." Proceedings of the 15th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. 15th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. Miami, Florida, USA. May 21–23, 2007. pp. 17-18. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/NAWTEC15-009
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