Typical United States Facilities

Also at Picatinny is another pilot-plant 10-liter kettle of a somewhat unique design. Unlike its British counterpart which seeks to maintain similar agitation 

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The variety of designs in use for MRFs in the United States results in different quality products. As recycling rates increase, new facilities are buUt. For glass separation, the foUowing devices are typically utilized. 

A typical system that is commercially available in the United States is the 200 kilowatt (kW) PAFC unit produced by UTC Fuel Cells. This is the type of unit used to provide electricity and heat to the U.S. Postal Service s Anchorage Mail Handling Facility. In 2000, the Chugach Electric Association installed a 1 Megawatt (MW) fuel cell system at the U.S. Postal Service s Anchorage Mail Handling Facility. The system consists of five natural gas powered 200-kW PC25 fuel cells developed by UTC Fuel Cells. 

MSW incinerators (qv) are typically designed to reduce the volume of solid waste and to generate electricity in condensing power stations. Incineration of unprocessed municipal waste alone recovers energy from about 34,500 t/d or 109 million metric tons of MSW annually in some 74 incinerators throughout the United States. This represents 1.1 EJ (1.05 x 1015 Btu) of energy recovered annually (18). Additionally there are some 20 RDF facilities processing from 200 to 2000 t/d of MSW into a more refined fuel (19). Representative projects are shown in Table 10. 

Potential chemicals of concern resulting from incineration operations are identified prior to any trial burns, as part of the permitting process. Typically, a few hundred chemicals of concern are identified, but only a small sampling are actually present in incinerator emissions. Since actual emissions data were not initially available from disposal facility sites in the continental United States, data from JACADS operations were used until site-specific emissions data became available. Also, if a given chemical of concern is not detected in site emissions, then it is assumed to be present at the minimum detection limit concentration, whether or not it is actually there. 

Many U.S.-owned organizations with sites overseas have committed to Responsible Care certification - RC14001, RCMS, or a combination of these specifications. These companies are typically members of the ACC. These certification commitments should affect facilities in Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It is projected that this initiative by the United States and other organizations will have an effect on the global Responsible Care program, eventually making Responsible Care certification an accepted - even expected - practice worldwide. 

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