Portable Sampler for Microorganisms in Incinerator Stack Emissions

Emissions investigation for a novel medical waste incinerator.

Medical waste constitutes one of the waste streams that should be dealt with special priority due to its potential negative impact on public health and on the environment. Incineration is a process that is widely used for the treatment of medical waste. However, self-supporting combustion of medical waste cannot avoid releasing many hazardous pollutants into our environment. The most favored so...

Source Sampling Tests Stack Emissions

tationary source sampling is conducted to evaluate S gas stream emissions to -the atmosphere from stacks, ducts or process exhausts. A pollutant’s concentration is measured by extracting a known volume from the gas stream and determining the average stack gas flow rate over the sampling period. The mass emission rate of each constituent then may be calculated. Emission data are used to evaluate...

Real-Time Analysis of Incinerator Emissions: The Missing Link

-Experiments have been carried out to determine whether the growth delay induced in small EMT6 spheroids (-250 ,um in diameter) by a range of cytotoxic drugs can be increased by pre-incubation of the spheroids under hypoxic conditions with misonidazole (MISO). Hypoxic pre-incubation was for 3 or 5 h in the presence of 5 mm MISO, and caused a growth delay of about 1 day or 2 days respectively. S...

Medical Waste Incinerator Emissions and Air Pollution Control

Refuse incinerator particulate emissions and combustion residues for New York City during the 20th century.

Refuse incineration data for New York City (NYC) have been compiled as a function of time during the 20th century to assess the historical significance of this pollutant source in a densely populated area. Thirty-two municipal and 17,000 apartment house refuse incinerators were identified. Approximately 1.1 x 10(8) t of refuse (wet weight) were combusted in NYC incinerators between 1908 and 199...