Abstract
The Hazardous Waste Incineration Standards promulgated under the authority of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 require that a Destruction and Removal Efficiency (DRE) of 99.99% be attained for Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHC) present in a waste. The POHC are designated by state or federal permit writers and compliance with the DRE performance standard must be demonstrated through a performance test. An essential part of this regulatory program is monitoring stack gases for POHC in order to determine the DRE. A method is presented in this paper to estimate the volume of stack gas that must be sampled for analysis. The method of estimation takes six important variables into consideration, specifically: 1) The absolute quantity of POHC readily detected in a sample by laboratory analysis; 2) The concentration of the POHC in the hazardous waste; 3) The heating value of the waste; 4) The excess air present in the stack gas; 5) The amount of auxiliary fuel used during incineration; and 6) The stack gas temperature.
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