Hazardous industrial waste typical

The Subpart O standards apply to units that treat or destroy hazardous waste and which meet the definition of an incinerator. An incinerator is any enclosed device that uses controlled flame combustion and does not meet the criteria for classification as a boiler, sludge dryer, carbon regeneration unit, or industrial furnace. Typical incinerators1 2 3 include rotary kilns, liquid injectors, fixed hearth units, and fluidized bed incinerators (Table 23.1). The definition of an incinerator also includes units that meet the definition of an infrared incinerator or plasma arc incinerator. An infrared incinerator is any enclosed device that uses electric-powered resistance as a source of heat and which is not listed as an industrial furnace. A plasma arc incinerator is any enclosed device that uses a high-intensity electrical discharge as a source of heat and which is not listed as an industrial furnace. 

TABLE 2. Typical Hazardous Substance In Industrial Waste Streams... 

Transfer and Transport of Hazardous Wastes The facilities of a hazardous-waste transfer station are quite different from those of an industrial or municipal sohd-waste transfer station. Typically, hazardous wastes are not compacted (mechanical volume reduction). 

In establishing treatment standards, U.S. EPA applied the BDAT methodology to the typical forms of waste generated by industry. Some forms of hazardous waste are unique and were not taken into account by the BDAT process when treatment standards were established. As a result, U.S. EPA created a number of broad ATSs for special types of waste.2... 

Typical Hazardous Wastes Generated by Selected Industries... 

Acrylonitrile is readily volatile, and significant quantities escape into air during manufacture and use. Volatilization may also occur from hazardous waste sites. In air, acrylonitrile is degraded primarily by reaction with hydroxyl radicals, with an estimated half-life of 5 to 50 hours. Acrylonitrile has been detected in air in the vicinity of various industrial sources at concentrations from 0.1 to 325 ppb, but has not been detected in typical ambient air. 

As a registered VSQG, an industrial plant may transport its own hazardous waste under certain conditions in accordance with the appropriate State regulations. The following are the Massachusetts regulations (310 CMR 30.353), which are presented as a typical example ... 

Each State has its own requirements and regulations for management of hazardous wastes at industrial sites. This section presents the Massachusetts requirements for graphic artists, printers, and photographers as a typical example. 

According to the vendor, in the United States the typical cost for the disposal of a hazardous heavy-metal waste ranges from 175 to 240 per ton, and the typical waste management cost is approximately 275 per ton. According to Solucorp Industries, an in-line MBS would save a manufacturer up to 150 or more per ton of waste treated (D15307B, p. 1). 

The waste audit program is Intended to provide assistance to California s small quantity generators of hazardous waste. This is accomplished by issuing contracts to evaluate waate reduction opportunities in industries typically comprised of small to medium businesses. Waste-generating operations are studied to identify potentials for reducing waste, recycling or recovering resources, or alternative treatment measures. The economic feasibilities of the various alternatives are analyzed, and the study results are compiled in a final waste audit report. 

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