Dunnage incinerator

In early December 1994, the Army completed trial bums of the dunnage incinerator using contaminated wood. Preliminary findings from EPA indicated that agent destruction standards were met. However, the trial bum did not test the incinerator s ability to bum contaminated charcoal, which could be a significant source of waste for the dunnage incinerator. According to an EPA official who oversaw the trial bum, if the Army plans to bum charcoal, an additional trial bum would be required. 

The Army continues to plan to spend about 17.7 million for acquisition and installation of dunnage incineration equipment at four future disposal plants to be constructed in Oregon, Arkansas, Colorado, and Kentucky. 

Army officials stated that their acquisition plans remain unchanged because modifying environmental permit applications to reflect the use of commercial disposal facilities or other alternative waste management 

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Secondary Waste Treatment Treatment of dunnage (paper and wood waste products) A dunnage incinerator was included in die baseline designs but has not been used. At JACADS, dunnage was burned in the MPF. If dunnage is proven to be uncontaminated, it will be shipped off site. Otherwise it will be burned in the MPF. 

The furnace and incinerator systems, which include a deactivation furnace system, a metal parts furnace, two liquid incinerators, and a dunnage incinerator. 

Chemical Weapons/Explosive Waste/Unexploded Ordnance 3.8 DUNNAGE INCINERATOR... 

Dunnage, which includes packing materials such as wood pallets, fiberboard, steel bands, glass, plastic, and paper, is retained for disposal by a nonincineration means that has not been specified. The Parsons/Honeywell process intends to follow the lead of the baseline system in selecting a nonincineration disposal method (the dunnage incinerator at Tooele has not performed adequately). 

DPE suits, and butyl rubber (NRC, 2001b). The levels were 0.0002 to 0.0008 ng/m3, three orders of magnitude below the EPA criterion of 0.2 ng/m3 for dioxin emissions from incinerators. In the test with neat GB, the product gas contained 0.01 to 0.06 percent phosphine. As noted previously in the section on methods development testing, phosphine can interfere with the measurement of GB. Based on results from the EPA s toxicity characteristic leachate procedure, stabilization would be necessary only for solid wastes derived from DPE suit material, because the cadmium and lead criteria were not met by the treated dunnage in some tests (NRC, 2001b). 

Treatment of secondary wastes at Pueblo will be an important issue. Some secondary wastes (dunnage and DPE suits) were successfully processed through the MPF at JACADS. Although the same processing is planned in the modified baseline process, supporting data and information were not available to the committee. Spent decontamination solution was charged to a liquid incinerator afterburner at... 

The solid residue remaining from ash, fiberglass, and wooden dunnage are evaluated for contamination and are transported to approved landfills. Brine (a by-product waste) is packaged and also sent to approved landfills. There is no water discharge resulting from the incineration process. 

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