C. Rittmeyer et al., DECOMPOSITION OF ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDS IN MUNICIPAL SOLID-WASTE INCINERATION PLANTS .2. COCOMBUSTION OF CFC CONTAINING POLYURETHANE FOAMS, Chemosphere, 28(8), 1994, pp. 1455-1465
The thermal decomposition of foams containing chlorofluorocarbon 11 (C
FC-11) was studied both in the KfK test facility TAMARA and in a munic
ipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI). At technical feasible PUF feeds a
nd typical combustion temperature the CFC-11 destruction is 99.999 % i
n TAMARA and 99.998 % in the MSWI. The CFC-11 emission exceeds only sl
ightly the background level in ambient air. Up to 50% of the chlorine
and fluorine fed in by CFC-11 were released into the flue gas as hydro
halogens, which are removed by modern APC systems without problems.