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Environmental Protection
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Hazardous Waste Engineering
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati OH 45268
Research and Development
EPA/600/S2-85/004 Feb. 1985
SEH\ Project Summary
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Capital and O&M Cost
Relationships for Hazardous
Waste Incineration: Addendum
No. 1—Ionizing Wet
Scrubber
R. McCormick and H. Lips
The report summarized herein is an
addendum to a more comprehensive
report. Capital and O&M Cost Rela-
tionships for Hazardous Waste Inciner-
ation, which developed parametric
methods for estimating capital and
annual costs for incinerators as a
function of waste characteristics and
quantities, facility capacity, type, and
location. The earlier study assumed that
particulate/HCI emissions were con-
trolled using venturi scrubber/packed
bed absorber systems. This addendum
includes ionizing wet scrubber (IWS)
systems as a design alternative. It pro-
vides, for IWS systems, a methodology
to estimate capital cost vs. capacity/
paniculate efficiency and operating
(primarily power and makeup water)
requirements. These can be used with
the earlier study to project overall capital
and O&M costs for incineration facilities
using IWSs.
This Project Summary was developed
by EPA's Hazardous Waste Engineering
Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH,
to announce key findings of the research
project that is fully documented in a
separate report of the same title (see
Project Report ordering information at
back).
Introduction
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Solid Waste, is currently
conducting a Regulatory Impact Analysis
(RIA) of performance standards for haz-
ardous waste incinerators. This RIA is
intended to determine both the costs and
benefits of various regulatory standards.
The benefits of hazardous waste inciner-
ator regulations are being evaluated
through risk assessment studies conduct-
ed by other investigators. The study
summarized herein addresses certain
cost aspects of hazardous waste inciner-
ation, specifically capital and operating
costs for ionizing wet scrubber .(IWS)
systems used to control air emissions in
some incineration facilities and provides
a methodology for estimating these costs.
It is an addendum to Capital and O&M
Cost Relationships for Hazardous Waste
Incineration, a report that resulted from a
two-year study to develop parametric cost
estimating methods for hazardous waste
incineration that would enable the user to
project potential economic impacts of
regulation over various segments of the
incineration industry. The parametric
relationships developed in that study
allow capital and annual operating costs
for incineration facilities to be estimated
as a f u nction of waste characteristics and
quantities, facility size or capacity, generic
incinerator system design, energy recov-
ery utilization, air pollution control re-
quirements, facility operating schedule,
and facility location in the United States.
The capital cost relationships in the
original study encompass all facets of
hazardous waste incineration facilities,
including waste storage and handling
equipment, combustion equipment and
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R. McCormick and H. Lips are with Acurex Corporation, Mountain View, CA
94039.
Benjamin L. Blaney is the EPA Project Officer (see below).
7he complete report, entitled "Capital and O&MCost Relationships for Hazardous
Waste Incineration: Addendum No. 1—Ionizing Wet Scrubber Costs," (Order
No. PB 85-153 559/AS; Cost: $7.00, subject to change) will be available only
from:
National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
Telephone: 703-487-4650
The EPA Project Officer can be contacted at:
Hazarous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati. OH 45268
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