Envitech will attend the International Conference on Thermal Treatment Technologies (IT3/HWC), October 20-22, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown, Houston, Texas. The preliminary technical pr
ogram can be downloaded from the conference website. The conference features key note speakers from Veolia, Clean Harbors, Essroc, TCEQ, and B3 Systems.
Envitech will have an exhibit booth and present a paper, “Meeting the New Hospital, Medical, and Infectious Waste Incinerator (HMIWI) MACT with a Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP)”. The paper will provide an overview of a new medical waste incinerator scrubber system with a wet electrostatic precipitator to treat the off gas from two existing medical waste incinerators. The new system was required to achieve a 20% reduction in particulate (PM) emissions, and a 93% reduction in lead (Pb) emissions from the previous gas cleaning system. The new system has been operational since October 2014. The table below compares the performance of the emission limits to the new compliance standards. The results demonstrate the system comfortably meets the new EPA MACT standards.
|
Pollutant |
Units |
Compliance Limit |
Test Result % of limit |
| Particulates, EPA Method 5 | gr/dscf | 0.020 | 15% |
| Pb EPA Method 29 | mg/dscm | 0.018 | 6% |
| Cd, EPA Method 29 | mg/dscm | 0.013 | 10% |
| Hg | mg/dscm | 0.025 | 1.0% |
| Dioxins/furans, EPA Method 23 | Total (ng/dscm) | 0.85 | 5% |
| TEQ (ng/dscm) | 0.020 | 15% | |
| HCl, EPA Method 26 | ppmv | 7.7 | 1.6% |
| SO2 | ppmv | 4.2 | 35% |
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