Abstract
The trend toward increased use of central refuse incinerators is inevitably contributing to urban air pollution. Eventually sampling ports, emission sensing and recording equipment will be required; and more detailed data will be available. But, tradilionally, discharges have been estimated by means of emission factors for nominal design loadings. Such estimates may be unreliable, especially under highly variable processing rates. Preliminary evidence suggests lhat actual emission factors are higher when the incinerator is charged at greater rates, and vice versa. Observations at the Boston municipal incinerator indicate considerable day-to-day variability in refuse loading. No measurements of emissions are made, but daily input loading records for several years are available. This study focuses upon the variability in daily loadings. Several functions relating emission factors to charging rates are assumed in order to estimate variability in discharges to the atmosphere. Four years of daily records were ...
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