Source Sampling Fine Particulate Matter: Institutional Oil-Fired Boiler, Appendix A thru D

摘要

This test report describes the measurement and characterization of fine particulate matter (fine PM) emissions and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from an institutional scale no. 2 distillate oil-fired boiler with a rated capacity of 60,000 lbs/h (18.7 MW, 67.3 GJ/h)1. This category of boilers was responsible for an estimated 1245.4 kJ (ca. 45.6%) of distillate oil consumption in the U.S. in 1990. The boiler tested in this study was one of three boilers in a university power plant that provided space and water heating to a number of buildings on the university campus. Sampling was conducted in the exhaust duct of one boiler prior to the point at which all three boiler exhausts were combined into a single exhaust stream to the power plant stack. The boiler employed low-NOx burners for control of NOx emissions, but no devices for control of particulate matter were utilized. The report presents results of the test efforts in two ways: As mass emission factors (i.e., mass of emitted species per unit mass of fuel consumed), and Mass fraction composition of the particle and gas phase emissions.This test report describes the measurement and characterization of fine particulate matter (fine PM) emissions and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from an institutional scale no. 2 distillate oil-fired boiler with a rated capacity of 60,000 lbs/h (18.7 MW, 67.3 GJ/h)1. This category of boilers was responsible for an estimated 1245.4 kJ (ca. 45.6%) of distillate oil consumption in the U.S. in 1990. The boiler tested in this study was one of three boilers in a university power plant that provided space and water heating to a number of buildings on the university campus. Sampling was conducted in the exhaust duct of one boiler prior to the point at which all three boiler exhausts were combined into a single exhaust stream to the power plant stack. The boiler employed low-NOx burners for control of NOx emissions, but no devices for control of particulate matter were utilized. The report presents results of the test efforts in two ways: As mass emission factors (i.e., mass of emitted species per unit mass of fuel consumed), and mass fraction composition of the particle and gas phase emissions.