Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Land-Clearing Debris

By Lutes, Christopher C.

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Title:	Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Land-Clearing Debris
Author:	Lutes, Christopher C.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


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Description
Excerpt: The exposure of persons to combustion emissions during land-clearing activities has become an issue of increasing concern. This study identifies and quantifies a broad range of air pollutants that are discharged during small-scale, simulated, open combustion of land-clearing debris and reports these emissions relative to the mass of material combusted. Two types of land-clearing debris (representing the typical land-clearing debris found in Florida and Tennessee; primarily wood and other organic debris) were combusted in a facility designed to simulate open burning. One debris sample was also combusted in the same facility using a simulated air curtain incinerator. Volatile, semivolatile, and particulate-bound organics were collected and analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The emphasis of analyses was placed on the quantification of hazardous air pollutants listed in Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAAs) of 1990, although further efforts were made to identify and quantify other major organic components. Fixed combustion gases (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, oxygen, and total hydrocarbons) were monitored continuously throughout the test period.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Page ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii 1.0 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1 SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 OPEN BURNING SIMULATION FACILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.1 Burn Hut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.2 Sample Shed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.3 Hazardous Air Pollutants Mobile Laboratory (HAPML) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3 TEST PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.1 Continuous Emission Monitors (CEMs) and Thermocouples . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.2 Volatile Organic Sampling and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.3 Dichotomous Sampling for Total PM10 and PM2.5 Particulate . . . . . . . . . 11 2.4.4 Particulate/Semivolatile Organic Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5 DATA PROCESSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.0 DATA, RESULTS, AND DISCUSSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.1 COMBUSTION CONDITIONS, CONTINUOUS EMISSION MONITOR, AND TOTAL PARTICULATE RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.2 PARTICULATE MATTER RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.3 VOLATILE ORGANIC RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Table of Contents (Continued) Section Page 3.4 SEMIVOLATILE AND PARTICULATE BOUND ORGANIC RESULTS . . . . . . 17 4.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.0 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 APPENDIX A QUALITY CONTROL EVALUATION REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1