Part 1, Pages i - 84, 4.85 MB

1.

Opening Plenary Session

1.1

The Evolution of WTE Utilization – A Global Look

1.1.1

The Evolution of WTE Utilization – The European Perspective.  Hakan Rylander, The Southwest Scania Solid Waste Company/SYSAV (Sweden)

1

1.1.2

Waste Incineration and Its Value in Japan.  Masaru Tanaka, The National Institute of Public Health (Japan)

21

1.1.3

Bridging the Information Gap.  Kit Strange, World Resource Foundation (England)

35

2.

Technical Session 1

2.1

Utility Restructuring Panel

2.1.1

What is Clean Power?  What is Green Power?  What is Waste-to-Energy’s Role in Utility Restructuring.  Leo Pierre Roy, Energy Answers Corporation

53

2.1.2

The Electric Utility Restructuring Debate – A Primer.  Eric Bock, Baise & Miller, P.C.

67

Part 2, Pages 85 - 190, 4.45 MB

2.2

Recycling Issues

2.2.1

Recycling Steel Automatically – Through Resource Recovery.  Walter Foley, Steel Recycling Institute

87

2.2.2

Scrap-Tire Derived Fuel:  Markets and Issues.  John Serumgard, Scrap Tire Management Council

93

2.2.3

Advanced Thermal Processing Alternatives for Solid Waste Management.  Walter R. Niessen, Camp Dresser & McKee

103

2.2.4

Production of Biomass Fuel for Resource Recovery:  Trash Recycling in Dade County, Florida.  Paul J. Mauriello and Kathie Brooks, Metropolitan Data County

127

2.3

Retrofits & Emissions Characteristics

2.3.1

Design, Operation and Performance of a Modern Air Pollution Control System for a Refuse Derived Fuel Combustion Facility.  Edwin Weave and Cosmo Azzinnari, Belco Technologies Corporation

135

2.3.2

Air Pollution Control for Waste-to-Energy Plants – What do we do Now?  Mark Sankey, Research-Cottrell; and Anthony Licata, Licata Energy & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

151

2.3.3

Heavy Metal Partitioning in a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator.  Lara Sorum, Morten Fossum, and John Hustad, SINTEF Thermal Energy; and Egil Evensen, Trondheim Energy Company

171

2.3.4

Using Life-Cycle Management to Evaluate Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Strategies.  Keith Weitz and Subba Nishtala, Center for Environmental Analysis:  Morten Barlaz and Ranji Ranjithan, North Carolina State University; and Susan Thorneloe, U.S. EPA

185

Part 3, Pages 191 - 264, 3.60 MB

2.3.5

Life-Cycle Assessment of the Environmental Emissions of Waste-to-Energy Facilities.  Jacques Besnainou and Anna Landfield, Ecobalance, Inc.

191

2.3.6

Permitting and Siting Success Using the “I-Site” Approach.  Timothy Coco, COCO+CO

203

3.

Evening Plenary Session

3.1

Assessment of Emission and Ash Management Regulations – A Global Report

3.1.1

Assessment of Emission and Ash Management Regulations – The European Perspective.  Kjell Nilsson, ISWA Working Group on Thermal Treatment (Sweden)

215

3.1.2

Incineration of Municipal Waste and Measures Against Dioxin in Japan.  Toru Sanbongi and Kentaro Doi, Waste Management Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare

231

4.

Technical Session II

4.1

Emerging Issues and Technologies

4.1.1

How Big Should a New Energy Facility Be?  A. John Chandler, A.J. Chandler & Associates, Ltd.

249

Part 4, Pages 265 - 374, 5.16 MB

4.1.2

Electrical and Electronic Plastics Waste Co-Combustion with Municipal Solid Waste for Energy Recovery.  Juergen Vehlow, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; and Frank Mark, DOW Europe

265

4.1.3

Co-Combustion of E+E Waste Plastics in the TAMARA Test Plant.  Juergen Vehlow, Thomas Wanke, Britta Bergfeldt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; and Frank Mark, DOW Europe

291

4.1.4

Achieving 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart Cb CO Emission Requirement on Large RDF-Fired Municipal Waste Combustors.  Matthew Clark and Bryan Sturgies, HDR Engineering, Inc.

307

4.2.

Risk Communications

4.2.1

Promoting Positive Safety News – The American Ref-Fuel VPP Experience.  Lyle Hanna, American Ref-Fuel Company

321

4.2.2

Crisis Communications:  Challenges for the Waste-to-Energy Industry.  Karen Alexander, Ogden Energy Group

327

4.2.3

After Flow Control:  The Steps Taken by Dade County to Ensure Continued Operation of its Solid Waste System.  Paul Mauriello and Diana Ragbeer, Dade County

335

4.3

Emissions Measurement & Monitoring

4.3.1

Dioxin Surrogates – Are There Any Meaningful Ones?  H. Gregor Rigo, Rigo & Rigo Associates, Inc.

349

4.3.2

Continuous Monitoring of Metals Emissions.  Robert Barton, Gary Hinshaw, Brain Cage, and Paul Gorman.  Midwest Research Institute

361

4.3.3

Establishing Data-Derived Emissions Limitations.  H. Gregor Rigo, Rigo & Rigo Associates, Inc; and Gary Liberson, Environmental Risk Sciences, Inc.

375

4.4.

Ash Utilization

4.4.1

Gas Generation at a Municipal Waste Combustor Ash Monofill – Franklin, New Hampshire.  Craig Musselman and William Straub, CMA Engineers, Inc.; Jeremy Bidwell, Rex Technical Services, Joyce Carpenter, Environmental Risk Limited; and James Presher, Concord Regional Solid Waste/Resource Recovery Cooperative

395

4.4.2

Ambient Air Monitoring of the Beneficial Use of Municipal Waste Combustor (MWC).  Ash as Daily Landfill Cover.  Brian Magee and Andy Miller, Ogden Environmental and Energy Services, Inc.; Jeffrey Hahn, Ogden Projects, Inc.; and Colin James, City and County of Honolulu

411

4.4.3

Fundamental Mechanisms of Phosphate Stabilization of Divalent Metals In MSW Combustion Scrubber Residues.  T. Taylor Eighmy, Environmental Research Group, University of New Hampshire.

429

4.4.4

A Process for Treatment of APC Residues from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators:  Preliminary Results.  Ole Hjelmar and Henrik Birch, VKI (Denmark)

459

 Part 6, Pages 473 - 568, 4.78 MB

5.

Technical Session III

5.1

Implementation Issues

5.1.1

Processed Engineered Fuels Derived From Paper and Plastics – Techno-Economic Factors and Regulatory Issues in a Competitive Market.  Michael Fisher, American Plastics, Inc; Oscar Ohlsson; Arun Singhania, Amoco Chemical Company; and Jose Sosa, FINAL Oil & Chemical Company

475

5.1.2

EPA’s Mercury Report to Congress:  A Basis for Decision-Making?  Frank Ferraro, Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc.

489

5.1.3

Should Regional Municipal Solid Waste Consortia Enter Incentive Based Service Contracts for Professional Management Services?  John Merritt, Merritt Environmental Services

499

5.1.4

The Waste-to-Energy Sector and the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.  Stephen Fotis, Van Ness Feldman, and David Sussman, Poubelle Associates.

505

5.2

Fluidized-Bed Combustion

5.2.1

Detection of Lateral Non-Uniformities in Fluidized Bed Combustors.  A. Venkata Ramayya, A. Thiyagarajan, and S. Amjad Ahmed, Vellore Engineering College (India)

521

5.2.1

Lime Enhances Moving Bed Filters for Mercury and Dioxin Control. Anthony Licata (Technical Advisor) and Ed Goetz, Dravo Lime Company; and Lutz-Peter Nethe, Marker, Umwelttechnik GmbH

537

5.2.3

Scrap Tire Pyrolysis:  Experiment and Modeling.  A. Napoli, Y. Soudais, D. Lecomte, Center Energetique-Environment; and S. Castillo, University Paul Sabatier

553

Part 7, Pages 569 - 674, 4.48 MB

5.2.4

Start-Up Experience at the Robbins Resource Recovery Facility While Focusing on the Environment.  Bruce Studley, Foster Wheeler Power Systems, Inc; and Roy Meyer, Robbins RRF

569

6.2.

Emissions Control

6.2.1

Mercury Emissions – Trends and Control Effectiveness.  John Waffenschmidt and Stephen Goff, American Ref-Fuel Company

587

6.2.2

Environmental Performance of the Robbins Resource Recovery Facility.  Michael Cooper, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation; and John Van Woy, Robbins RRF

603

6.2.3

New Mercury Control Technology for the Ft. Dix Waste-to-Energy Plant.  Sid Nelson, Jr., and Jon Miller, Sorbent Technologies Corp.

619

6.2.4

Is there a Meaningful Relationship Between Chlorine Fuel and Non-Dioxin Stack Emissions?  H. Gregor Rigo, Rigo & Rigo Associates, Inc; and R. Stephen Champlain, Vitco, Inc.

633

6.3

Regulatory Issues

6.3.1

Acceptance of Waste-to-Energy as Part of an Integrated Approach to Waste Management is Better for the Environment and Could Reduce Community Waste Management Costs.  Gerard A. van Rijswijk, Association of Liquidpaperboard Carton Manufacturers, Inc.

649

6.3.2

Economic Factors Influencing the Development of Resource Recovery Facilities in the Continental U.S. and Overseas.  Patrick Mahoney, Energy Answers Corporation

659

 Part 8, Pages 675 - 762, 4.87 MB

6.3.3

The Inside Story on the Legal Challenge to EPA’s Municipal Waste Combustor Rule:  The Mouse that Roared, Round 1.  Larry Jenkins, Wood Quinn & Crapo, L.C.

675

6.3.4

Keeping Society’s Options Open.  Charles Velzy (Private Consultant)

693

6.3.5

Comparison of U.S. EPA and European Emission Standards for Combustion and Incineration Technologies.  Anthony Licata (Technical Advisor), and Hans Ulrich Hartenstein, L&C Steinmuller GmbH; and Louis Terracciano, Licata Energy & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

701

7.

Technical Session IV

7.1

Ash Utilization

7.1.1

Planning and Implementing the New York/New Jersey Ash Paving Demonstration.  Edith Tanenbaum, Long Island Regional Planning Board

723

7.1.2

The Importance of pH Buffering Capacity – Comparison of Various Methods to Estimate the pH Properties of a Waste Material.  Catharina Baverman, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

739

7.1.3

High Standard Upgrading and Utilization of MSWI Bottom Ash –Financial Aspects.  Ruud Keegal and Adrianus C. G. van Beurden, Recycling Maatschappij Feniks B.V.; Jan G.P Born, Vereniging van Afvalverwerkers; and Emile A. Colnot, N.V. Huisvuilcentrale N-H

749

Part 9, Pages 763 - 854, 4.28 MB

7.2

Research & Emerging Technologies

7.2.1

Dioxin and Trace Metal Emissions from Combustion of Carbonized RDF Slurry Fuels.  Michael Klosky, EnerTech Environment, Inc.; Dr. Michael Fisher, APC; Arun Singhania, APC/Amoco Chemicals; Pete Maly and Dr. Randy Seeker, Energy and Environmental Research Corporation

765

7.2.2

Prevention of PCDD/PCDF Formation by Coal Co-Firing.  K. Raghunathan, Acurex Environmental Corp.; Brian Gullett, Chun Wai Lee and James Kilgroe, U.S. EPA and James Dunn, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas

779

7.2.3

An Experimental Study of Mercury Sorption by Activated Carbons and Calcium Hydroxide.  Behrooz Ghorishi, Acurex Environmental Corp.; and Brian Gullett, U.S. EPA

795

7.2.4

Characterization of PIC Emissions from Combustion of Pentachlorophenol-Treated Wood Wastes.  Suh Lee, Joseph Valenti and Dennis Tabor, Acurex Environmental Corp.; and Robert Hendricks and C.W. Lee, U.S. EPA

809

7.3

Retrofits and Advanced Technologies

7.3.1

Retrofitting a Spray Dryer ESP-Equipped Facility.  Marty Suchan and Scott Zapf, American Ref-Fuel Company of Essex County; and Greg Gesell, American Ref-Fuel Company

825

7.3.2

Combined Heat Recovery and Dry Scrubbing for MWC’s to Meet the New EPA Guidelines.  Peter Finnis, Procedair Industries Corp.; and Brian Heap, Procedair Limited

835

 Part 10, Pages 855 - 958, 5.34 MB

7.3.3

Retrofitting ESP Equipped MWC’s to Meet the 1995 Emission Guidelines Using Sensible Heat Exchanger Cooling and Dry Reagent Injection.  H. Gregor Rigo, Rigo & Rigo Associates, Inc.; and A. John Chandler, A.J. Chandler & Associates, Ltd.

855

7.3.4

Complete Refurbishment of an Existing Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Eastern Germany on a Turn-Key Contract Basis.  Hans-Ulrich Hartenstein, L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH; and Hans-Dietrich Sonneck, Broerius Abfallwirtschaft Sachsen GmbH

871

8.

Technical Session V

8.1

Health & Safety

8.1.1

Attaining VPP Star Status:  A Case Study of the American Ref-Fuel Waste-to-Energy Facilities.  Joseph Vengen, American Ref-Fuel Company

897

8.1.2

Accidental Release Prevention Requirements:  Risk Management Programs Under Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7).  Jeffrey Hahn, Ogden Energy Group

907

8.1.3

The Impact of OSHA Upon Waste-to-Energy Employers.  Stephen Yohay, McDermott, Will & Emery

921

8.1.4

Worker Safety at MRF’s – Where are we going?  Nathiel Egosi and Carmela Bedregal, RRT Design & Construction Corp.

927

8.2

Ash Utilization

8.2.1

Ash Recycling – The Coming of Age!  Jan Barnes, Duos Engineering (USA), Inc.; Haia Roffman, Radian International; and Frank Roethal, Waste Reduction and Management Institute, State University of New York

943

Part 11, Pages 959 - 1056, 4.26 MB

8.2.2

Comparison Between MSW Ash and RDF Ash from Incineration Process.  Ni-Bin Chang, H.P. Wang, K.S. Lin, and Y.H. Chang, National Cheng-Kung University; and W.L. Huang, Hational Kaohsiung Institute of Science and Technology.

959

8.2.3

Investigation into Seasonal Differences of Municipal Solid Waste Combustion Ash Leachate.  Thomas Kusterer, James Reynolds, Aron Trombka and Willson, Montgomery County, Maryland – Division of Solid Waste Services

975

8.2.4

Removal and Recovery of Heavy Metals from Incinerator Ash Residues.  Keith Forrester, Forrester Environmental Services, Inc.

991

8.2.5

Benefit/Cost Analysis of RDF Process in Taiwan.  Ni-Bin Chang and Y.H. Chang, National Cheng-Kung University

1007

8.3

Emissions Control

8.3.1

Update of Dry Scrubbing Experience on European Waste-to-Energy Facilities.  Karston Felsvang and Niels Jacobsen, Niro A/S; Guy Morvan, ABB France; and Niels Mailer Pedersen, I/S Amagerforbraending

1027

8.3.2

Experience with a Carbon Injection System at a Spray Dryer/Electrostatic Precipitator Equipped Waste-to-Energy Facility.  Thomas Honeycheck, Greg Gesell, Kenneth Armellino, American Ref-Fuel Company; and Joseph Kozlowski, American Ref-Fuel Company of Essex County

1045

 Part 12, Pages 1057 - 1092, 1,87 MB

8.3.3

Stack Emissions and Ash Characterization Data from a State of the Art Municipal Waste Resource Recovery Facility.  Ramana Rao, Montgomery County, Maryland – Department of Public Works and Transportation

1057

8.3.4

Developing Laboratory Test Facilities to Evaluate Carbon Based Materials to Control Mercury Emissions.  Anthony Licata, (Technical Advisor) Dravo Lime Company; Lutz-Peter Nethe, Marker Umwelttechnik GmbH; and Louis Terracciano, Licata Energy & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

1073

Speaker Contact Listing

1087