Carbon filtration for reducing emissions from chemical agent incineration / Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, Board on Army Science and Technology, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazardous wastes--Incineration--Environmental aspects--United States.

Hazardous wastes.

Chemical weapons disposal--Environmental aspects--United States.

Chemical weapons disposal.

Waste gases--Purification.

Waste gases.

Carbon, Activated.

Filters and filtration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report reviews the Army's evaluation of carbon filters for use in the baseline incineration PAS, as well as the Army's change management process (the Army's tool for evaluating major equipment and operational changes to disposal facilities). In preparing this report, members of the Stockpile Committee evaluated exhaust gas emissions testing at the two operating baseline incineration systems, JACADS and the TOCDF; evaluated the development of the dilute SOPC carbon filter simulation model; and evaluated the conceptual design of a modified PAS with an activated carbon filter. The two major risk assessments conducted for each continental disposal site that use the baseline system, namely, (1) the quantitative risk assessment, which evaluates the risks and consequences of accidental agent releases, and (2) the health risk assessment, which evaluates the potential effects of nonagent emissions on human health and the environment, were also examined.

Contents:

Fronrt Matter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Figures and Tables

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Executive Summary

1 Introduction and Background

2 Trace Gaseous Emissions from Agent Incineration

3 Controlling Trace Organics with Passive Activated Carbon Filters

4 Facility Design with a Carbon Filter System

5 Risk Assessments and Change Management: An Evaluation of the Army's Decision-Making Process

6 Findings and Recommendations

References

Appendix A Reports of the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee)

Appendix B Consolidated Exhaust Gas Characteristics for the JACADS and TOCDF Baseline Incineration Systems

Appendix C Commercial Application of Carbon Bed Filters to Combustion Sources

Appendix D Adsorption

Appendix E Adsorption Separations: Alternative Modes of Operation

Appendix F Alternative Flue Gas Cleaning Systems for Substances of Potential Concern

Appendix G Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780309172714

0309172713

9780309520270

0309520274

9780585149356

0585149356

OCLC:

43477152