THE DETERMINATION OF EMISSIONS OF POLLUTANTS FROM BURNING WASTE OILS

Citation
I. Gulyurtlu et al., THE DETERMINATION OF EMISSIONS OF POLLUTANTS FROM BURNING WASTE OILS, Fuel, 75(8), 1996, pp. 940-944
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Engineering, Chemical
Journal title
FuelACNP
ISSN journal
00162361
Volume
75
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
940 - 944
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-2361(1996)75:8<940:TDOEOP>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
As a consequence of the growing awareness of the need to protect the e nvironment, a study was undertaken to investigate the impact of the us e of recycled waste oils as an industrial fuel in relatively small ind ustrial units. Combustion tests were carried out in a 230 kW experimen tal furnace with oils that had been subjected to pretreatment involvin g centrifugal separation of solids present. However, the analysis of t he combustion gases demonstrated that the levels of principal contamin ants such as lead and other heavy metals were still too high to meet t he emission levels required by the European Union. This suggests that physical processes are inadequate to remove the contaminants present i n waste oils. (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.