Air Pollution Control for Small Resource Recovery Facilities

Mr. Henderson brings up a subject that is going to become increasingly more important with the passage of time. As noted by the author and in an article by Marjorie Clarke in the January 1988 issue of Waste Age magazine, several states have enacted stringent air pollution control requirements for incinerators that, in some cases, are applicable to units as small as 20 tons per day (TPD). Many other states are considering such requirements. Several studies have indicated that there is a greater market potential for small (less than 600 TPD) and perhaps even for what some people call micro plants (less than 200 TPD) than there is for the large plants (greater than 600 TPD). These new re­ quirements for small plants can have a significant effect on their economic viability and when it would be pru­ dent to construct them. This paper presents a great deal of information on many details. Unfortunately, too much attention is sometimes spent on some details, such as S02' Al­ though S02 requirements are usually included in BACT, the very low sulfur content in MSW makes compliance a trivial matter. The paper also does not seem to answer the basic question or come to any conclusion about what should have been the reason