ABSTRACT
The Mobile Incineration System was designed and built to provide a mobile facility for onsite thermal destruction/detoxification of hazardous and toxic organic substances. Over 40 sites have been identified in the state of Missouri which are contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin at levels above 1.0 part per billion. In 1982 the incineration system successfully destroyed liquid organic wastes containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), ortho-dichloro-benzene, and carbon tetrachloride. Consequently, the system was granted Toxic Substances Control Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permits to burn liquid polychlorinated biphenyls and RCRA-designated liquids having heats of combustion equal to or greater than that of carbon tetrachloride. Environmental Protection Agency and state regulatory offices currently require trial burn data on both liquids and solids because of the processing differences between liquids and solids in the kiln of a kiln-plus-secondary combustion chamber type incinerator.
