Integrated assessment of reduced emission impacts from a biomedical waste incinerator. Atmospheric characterization and modeling applications on particulate matter and acid gases

Article Abstract:

The impact of a biomedical waste incinerator (BWI) was estimated using a composite approach involving wind sector analyses, receptor modeling and dispersion modeling. Reduced emission impacts were observed at the monitoring site during a three-year period. 12-h ambient air particulate matter and acid gases from a versatile air pollutant sampler as well as meteorological data obtained near the BWI were measured. Monitoring was conducted in the same season for three consecutive years, the first year being before installation of air pollution ocntrol devices (APCDs) at the BWI, the following year with the BWI having APCDs and the third year being the 'mothballed' year.

Refuse Incinerators, Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing, Industrial furnaces and ovens, Research, Medical wastes

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The MSW incinerator as a monitoring tool for waste management

Article Abstract:

Aspects for utilizing municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerators as a tool for solid waste management is discussed. A utilization model is developed where testing of residue from MSW incinerators can be used to extrapolate industrial and domestic waste loading in terms of Zn, Cd, Cu and Pb concentrations. The models is shown to be 90% accurate in extrapolating for Zn and Cd loadings while about 80% effective in assessing Cu and Pb loadings.

Refuse systems, Solid Waste Incineration, Solid Waste Combustors and Incinerators, Usage, Political aspects, Refuse and refuse disposal, Waste disposal, Statistical sampling, Sampling (Statistics), Solid wastes

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