Containment of Dioxin Emissions from Refuse Fired Thermal Processing Units: Prospects and Technical Issues

摘要

This report reviews and addresses the prospects for and technical issues concerned with the utilization of chemisorption as a technique for containment of dioxin emissions from refuse fired thermal processing units. The results developed in this report suggest that containment, through chemisorption of dioxin emissions from refuse fired thermal processing units, may be technically feasible. Suggestions for research objectives and full scale tests are outlined. Refuse fired thermal processing units equipped for energy recovery may be more preferable than those units which are not equipped for energy recovery, if chemisorption occurs more efficiently at temperatures which are substantially lower than furnace gas exit temperatures.