Description
THIRD SCHEDULE
(Regulations 26, 47)
STANDARD FOR TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF WASTES
A. Classification of Incinerators
Class 1: Industrial Plants Burning Waste as an Additional/Alternative Fuel
Incinerators in which the waste serves as the fuel or supplementary fuel in an industrial process (e.g. the use of cement kilns or any other industrial boilers or furnaces for the disposal of noxious or hazardous materials).
Class 2 Industrial Incinerators
Class 2A: Commercial
Incinerators for the disposal of waste that contains hazardous, potential hazardous and bio-medical waste where the operator exceeds 100 Kg/day.
Class 2B: Small Scale Incinerators for Private Use
Incinerators for the disposal of hazardous, potential hazardous and bio-medical waste where the operator does not exceed 100 kg/ day.
Class 3: General waste Incinerators
Incinerators for general waste that is non toxic, non hazardous, non medical or does not contain organic halogens, i.e., selected customs, police, contraband goods, offices waste, commercial waste and industrial wastes) where the operator does not exceed 1 ton/ day.
STANDARDS, GUIDELINES, CRITERIA, PROCEDURE FOR INSTALLING/OPERATING INCINERATORS
No. | Parameter | Standards, Guideline, Criteria and Procedure
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1 |
Basic Plant Design |
An approved plant must have four distinct sections that demonstrate three principles of Turbulence, Residence Time and Temperature are inbuilt in the plant design .The regulated sections may include but not limited to:
Overall plant layout. Feed chamber/ charging —build by local customer Primary Combustion Chamber. –yes Secondary Combustion Chamber. –yes Particulate Scrubbers—- filter brick chamber included Acid Gas Scrubbers—none The stack/ chimney. –yes |
2 | Feeding And Charging | Controlled hygienic, mechanical or automatic feeding methods have to be used which will not influence the air temperature in the primary and secondary chambers of the incinerator negatively.
No waste is to be fed into the incinerator:
Please incorporate a mechanical feeder
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3 | Primary Combustion Chamber | The primary combustion chamber must:
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4 | Secondary Combustion Chamber (Afterburner). | The secondary combustion chamber must:
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5 | Particulate Removers | A mechanical particulate collector must be incorporated after secondary combustion chamber for removal of particulate pollutants entrained in the flue gas stream. The particulate collectors may include any of the following or a combination thereof:
Cyclone separator Electrostatic precipitators Fabric filters— filter brick |
6 | Chimney / Stack |
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7 | Instrumentation | Instrument for determining the inside wall temperature and not burner flame temperature must be provided for both primary and secondary chambers.–yes
–none Please incorporate this alarm as it is a requirement.
A carbon monoxide and/or oxygen meter/recorder A smoke density meter/recorder A gas flow meter/recorder A solid particulate meter/recorder Any other instrument or measurement that may be considered necessary–none
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8 | Location / Siting |
—according to local site
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9 | Emission Limits |
Combustion efficiency (CE) shall be at least 99.00% The Combustion efficiency is computed as follows;
C.E= % CO2 x 100 % CO2 + CO
4 Opacity of the smoke must not exceed 20% Viewed from 50 meters with naked eyes
Cadmium and compounds as Cd Mercury Hg Thallium Tl
Chromium Cr Beryllium Be Arsenic As Antimony Sb Barium Ba Lead Pb Silver Ag Cobalt Co Copper Cu Manganese Mn Tin Sn Vanadium V Nickel Ni Hydrochloric HCL Hydrofluoric acid HF Sulphur dioxide S02
DRE = [(Win – Wout)/Win]*100 Where: Win = mass feed rate of the POHC in the waste stream fed to incinerator, and Wout = mass emission rate of POHC in the stack prior to the release to the atmosphere.
Note: All pollutant concentrations must be expressed at Oo C and 1.013 x 10 5 N/m2, dry gas and 11% oxygen correction.
Oxygen correction is computed as:
Es = 21 – Os x EM 21 – OM
Where: Es = Calculated emission concentration at the standard percentage oxygen concentrationEM = Measured emission concentration Os = Standard oxygen concentration OM = measured oxygen concentration
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10 | Operation |
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11 | Housekeeping | The site where the incinerator is built must:
—according to local site
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12 | Health & Safety (Protective Gear) |
—according to local site
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