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659706 
Journal Article 
Development of a thermal stability based ranking of hazardous organic compound incinerability 
Taylor, PH; Dellinger, B; Lee, CC 
1990 
1 
Environmental Science & Technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
EISSN: 1520-5851 
24 
3 
316-328 
English 
WOS:A1990CQ96100009 
BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. It is believed that emissions from full-scale incinerators can often be related to poor microscale mixing of waste and oxygen. To develop a scientifically defensible ranking of hazardous organic waste incinerability, the temperatures for 99% decomposition for a series of organic compounds were evaluated under constant conditions of elemental waste mixture composition (C:H:Cl molar ratios of 3:3:1), fuel/oxygen equivalence ratio (PHI = 3.0), and gas-phase residence time (tr = 2.0 s). Theoretically consistent data were obtained for 66 compounds. A thermochemical reaction kinetic analysis indicated that the ranking can be applied to waste/oxygen equivalence ratios greater than 1.0 and Hl ratios greater than 1.0. This result suggests that deviations from the ranking may occur under thermal quenching and/or high waste chlorine failure modes. Pilot- and full-scale evaluations of the laboratory-based ranking are currently being conducted. 
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