ABSTRACT
With ever-increasing demands on TO equipment, i.e., to improve destruction removal ef“ciencies (DREs), lower NOx emissions (see Volume 1, Chapter 15), reduce fuel usage, and increase uptime performance, having a facility to test equipment and processes has become increasingly important (see Volume 3, Chapter 8 for a discussion on thermal oxidizers). Seeker has noted “The challenge to waste combustion technology of the future is to burn the ever changing waste streams in a cost-effective, fuel ef“cient manner without creating other emissions or
operating problems.”1 Test facilities are used to determine emissions from previously untested wastes or at untried operating conditions. These data can then be used by companies and regulatory agencies to help establish operating conditions and/or permits for new systems. Detailed discussions of a variety of aspects of industrial combustion testing are given in Ref. [2].
