ARB Evaluation Test Conducted on a Hospital Waste Incinerator at Los Angeles Co., USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

摘要

A series of emission tests were conducted on a small hospital waste incinerator. The small hospital waste incinerator burns less than 100 pounds per hour of infectious hospital waste and burns a total of no more than 300 pounds per day. Hospital waste incinerators previously tested by the ARB were rated at 600 to 1000 pounds per hour. The small incinerator is manually charged and cleaned. The objectives of the incinerator emission test were to characterize criteria and select non-criteria air pollutants released to the atmosphere. The criteria air pollutants were carbon monoxide, total hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen. In addition, CO2, PM, and O2 were measured. Some of the select non-criteria air pollutants included dioxins, furans, PCBs, semi-volatile organics, volatile organics, hydrogen chloride, hexavalent chromium, and mercury.