National Incinerator Testing and

Hay DJ, Finkelstein A, Klicius R. 1986. The national incinerator testing and evaluation program two-stage incinerator combustion tests. Chemosphere 15 9-12. 

National Incinerator Testing and Evaluation Program Mass Burning Incinerator Technology, Vol. II, Lavalin, Inc. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 1987. 

In 1983, Environment Canada commenced a five-year National Incinerator Testing and Evaluation Program (NITEP) with the following objectives 18... 

Environment Canada, National Incinerator Testing and Evaluation Program The Environmental... 

Five separate destruction technologies were tested for the destruction of waste HMX and PBX high explosives (HE). Since incineration is the baseline technology, a series of tests was conducted at a commercial two-stage, fixed-hearth incinerator. Destruction by molten salt injection was tested at LLNL. The last three destruction techniques are based on a base hydrolysis (BH) explosive pretreatment to produce a nonexplosive solution for further treatment. Three secondary treatments for BH were tested, including hydrothermal, biodegradation, and thermal decomposition. BH and hydrothermal techniques were tested at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and LLNL tested biological and thermal decomposition. 

Concurrent with the beginning of construction of the baseline incineration facility at JACADS in 1987, the Army requested that the National Research Council (NRC) review and evaluate the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) and provide scientific and technical advice and counsel. The NRC established the standing Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee), one of whose early reports was a study of operational verification testing at JACADS prior to the start of agent disposal operations. In the intervening years, the Stockpile Committee produced 27 reports on various aspects of the CSDP. ... 

Similar to RCRA, once the trial plan has been approved, a trial burn will be conducted and the results reported to the regional administrator or the director, National Program Chemical Division, for approval. At TOCDF, trial burns were conducted in accordance with RCRA and TSCA protocols for certain M55 rockets. The acceptance criteria for the RCRA trial burn of the liquid incinerators, the deactivation furnace system (DFS), and the metal parts furnace were met. A second test of the DFS destruction efficiency for PCBs showed that emissions levels meet TSCA criteria (NRC, 1999). 

Figure 18-1 (Upper) Cup slag test on 42% AI2O3 brick. (Lower) Cup slag test on 60% AI2O3 brick. From Refractories for Hazardous Waste Incineration An Overview, James A. Caprio and H. Edward Wolfe, 1982 National Waste Processing Conference, page 148. Courtesy of the HarbisonAA/alker Refractories Co.

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