Pollutant formation and control/hazardous waste incineration

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-785
Author(s):  
David W. Pershing
1985 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wileen E. Sweet ◽  
Richard D. Ross ◽  
George Vander Velde

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Timothy Oppelt

In the United States over the last ten years, concern over important disposal practices of the past has manifested itself in the passage of a series of federal and state-level hazardous waste cleanup and control statutes of unprecedented scope. The impact of these various statutes will be a significant modification of waste management practices. The more traditional and lowest cost methods of direct landfilling, storage in surface impoundments and deep-well injection will be replaced, in large measure, by waste minimization at the source of generation, waste reuse, physical/chemical/biological treatment, incinceration and chemical stabilization/solidification methods. Of all of the “terminal” treatment technologies, properly-designed incineration systems are capable of the highest overall degree of destruction and control for the broadest range of hazardous waste streams. Substantial design and operational experience exists and a wide variety of commercial systems are available. Consequently, significant growth is anticipated in the use of incineration and other thermal destruction methods. The objective of this paper is to examine the current state of knowledge regarding air emissions from hazardous waste incineration in an effort to put the associated technological and environmental issues into perspective.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuguang Jiang ◽  
Yanhui Li ◽  
Jianhua Yan

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 995-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Villalba Weinberg ◽  
Dominique Goeuriot ◽  
Jacques Poirier ◽  
Cyrille Varona ◽  
Xavier Chaucherie

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Beder ◽  
Michael Shortland

In 1990, the Australian government tried to establish a national hazardous waste incinerator in rural New South Wales. This paper considers the debates over the risks associated with hazardous waste incineration that emerged and the symbolic portrayal of technology implicit in these debates. Risk communications associated with technologies convey a message about how technological systems are shaped, implemented and operated. In this case, government officials succumbed to the temptation to employ an idealistic model of technology in an attempt to gain community acceptance for the proposed incinerator. They depicted incinerator technology as predictable and controllable, and separable from the social context. Opponents reacted by employing a `worse case' model; they represented incinerator technology as unreliable, uncertain and uncontrollable. Neither side deliberately lied: each put forward a view of technology that furthered its own goals. The polarized positions that resulted are not uncommon in technological controversies, and environmental groups are often branded as alarmist on this account. But there is some evidence in this case study that messages of reassurance also communicate insincerity and leave proponents of a technology vulnerable to having their claims easily deconstructed by the opposition.


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