Book/Printed Material Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds.
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Image 1 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds.- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 2 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. G°V o n..; yy^ s y o /4 tap A/oW» V %^P*- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 5 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning And Standards Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 EPA-454/R-98-013 June 1998 O EPA LOCATING AND ESTIMATING AIR EMISSIONS FROM SOURCES OF ARSENIC AND...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 6 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. /Oc-03 a/.w-j? 99 /5- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 7 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Page LIST OF TABLES. viii LIST OF FIGURES.xi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. xiv 1.0 PURPOSE OF DOCUMENT .1-1 2.0 OVERVIEW OF DOCUMENT CONTENTS.2-1 3.0 BACKGROUND.. 3-1 3.1 Physical And Chemical...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 8 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued SectiQn 4.3 Municipal Waste Combustion.4-45 4.3.1 Process Description. 4-45 4.3.2 Emission Factors .4-52 4.3.3 Source Location.4-56 4.4 Sewage Sludge Incinerators. 4-56 4.4.1 Process Description.4-56 4.4.2 Emission Factors .4-63...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 9 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued Section Page 5.3.4 Emission Control Techniques .5-28 5.3.5 Source Location. v.*. .5-30 5.4 Secondary Aluminum Operations .5-31 5.4.1 Source Description.5-31 5.4.2 Process Description. 5-31 5.4.3 Emissions and Control....- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 10 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued Section Eage 7.1.2 Emission Control Techniques .7-3 7.1.3 Emissions. 7-3 7.2 Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.7-4 7.2.1 Process Description. 7-4 7.2.2 Emission Control Techniques 7-5 7.2.3 Emission Factors 7-6...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 11 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued Section Page 8.1.1 Methodology for the Determination of Suspended Particulate Matter in the Atmosphere (High-Volume Method) and Modified Methodology for the Determination of Lead in Suspended Particulate Matter...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 12 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds.- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 13 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF TABLES Table Page 3-1 Physical Properties of Arsenic.3-2 3-2 Important Arsenic-Bearing Minerals.3-3 3-3 Common Arsenic Compounds.3-4 3-4 Physical Properties of Arsenic Halides .3-6 3-5 Physical Properties of Common Arsenic Sulfides.3-9...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 14 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF TABLES, continued Table Page 4-15 Summary of Geographical Distribution of MWC Facilities (1997) 4-57 4-16 Arsenic Emission Factors for Sewage Sludge Incinerator Sources.4-64 4-17 Arsenic Emission Factors for Medical Waste...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 15 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF TABLES, continued Table Page 6- 5 Distribution of Sulfite Pulp Mills in the United States (1997) 6-15 7- 1 Other Sources of Arsenic Emissions.7-2 7-2 Arsenic Emission Factor for Glass...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 17 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF FIGURES Fi gure Page 4-1 Simplified Boiler Schematic .4-4 4-2 Single Wall-Fired Boiler.4-6 4-3 Simplified Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustor Process Flow Diagram.4-8 4-4 Spreader Type Stoker-Fired Boiler .4-9 4-5 Typical...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 18 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF FIGURES, continued Figure F a S? 5-4 Cross-Section of a Typical Blast Furnace .i:.5-13 5-5 Side View of a Typical Rotary Reverberatory Furnace.5-15 5-6 Cross-Sectional View of an Electric Furnace...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 19 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. LIST OF FIGURES, continued Figure Page 7-4 Flow Diagram for Abrasive Grain Processes. 7-18 7- 5 Process Flow Diagram Of Portland Cement Manufacturing Process.7-22 8- 1 Components of a High-Volume Ambient Air...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 20 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds.- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 21 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments contain a list of 188 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must study, identify sources of, and determine if regulations...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 22 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds.- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 23 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. SECTION 1.0 PURPOSE OF DOCUMENT The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and State and local air pollution control agencies are becoming increasingly aware of the presence of substances in the ambient air that...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 24 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Substance EPA Publication Number Formaldehyde EPA-450/4-91-012 Lead EPA-454/R-98-006 Manganese EPA-450/4-84-007h Medical Waste Incinerators EPA-454/R-93-053 Mercury and Mercury Compounds EPA-453/R-93-023 Methyl Chloroform EPA-454/R-93-045 Methyl Ethyl Ketone EPA-454/R-93-046 Methylene Chloride EPA-454/R-93-006 Municipal Waste Combustors...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 25 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Arsenic air emissions have also been affected by regulatory activity from other agencies-including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), where regulations for reducing arsenic exposure to a variety of worker categories...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 26 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Thus, in situations where an accurate assessment of arsenic emissions is necessary, source- specific information should be obtained to confirm the existence of particular emitting operations, the types and effectiveness of control...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 27 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. SECTION 2.0 OVERVIEW OF DOCUMENT CONTENTS This section briefly outlines the nature, extent, and format of the material presented in the remaining sections of this report. Section 3.0 provides a brief summary...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 28 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Section 7.0 summarizes other source categories that use arsenic and arsenic compounds in their processes and emit arsenic or source categories whose raw materials contain arsenic that 9 is emitted in the...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 29 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Once the data quality ratings for the source tests had been assigned, these ratings along with the number of source tests available for a given emission point were evaluated. Because of the...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 30 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. This document does not contain any discussion of health or other environmental effects of arsenic, nor does it include any discussion of ambient air levels. 2-4- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 31 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Tty References For Section 2.0 Procedures for Preparing Emission Factor Documents. EPA-454/R-95-015. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, October 1997. Factor Information...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 33 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. tV SECTION 3.0 BACKGROUND 3.1 Physical And Chemical Nature Of Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds Elemental arsenic (As, Chemical Abstract Service [CAS] No. 7440-38-2) is a silver-gray crystalline metallic solid that exhibits low...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 34 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE 3-1. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ARSENIC Property Value Atomic weight 74.92 Melting point (at 39.1 MPa) a 816°C Boiling point. 615°C b Specific gravity (26°C) 5,778 kg/m 3 Specific heat 24.6 J/(mol-K)...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 35 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE 3-2. IMPORTANT ARSENIC-BEARING MINERALS Mineral CAS No. Arsenic Content, Arsenopyrite (FeAsS) 1303-18-0 46 Lollingite (FeAs 2 12255-65-1 73 Orpiment 12255-89-9 61 Realger 12044-30-3 70 Native Arsenic 7440-38-2 90-100 Source: Reference 1....- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 36 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE 3-3. COMMON ARSENIC COMPOUNDS Compound Chemical Formula or Description Uses Arsenic acid H 3 AsO 4 -0.5H 2 O Manufacture of arsenates, glass making, wood treating process, defoliant (regulated), desiccant for...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 37 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Other Arsenic Hydrides In general, arsenides have little commercial uses. While some arsenides have a defined composition, others are mixtures. Many arsenides occur in nature, and some of the naturally occurring arsenides...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 38 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. TABLE 3-4. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ARSENIC HALIDES CO 1 o m 0 «r 00 VO 10 VO co O VO ON o VO m CN VO cn c CN CN CN cn...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 39 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. Arsenic Trioxide —Arsenic trioxide is also known as white arsenic. It is the most commercially important arsenic compound. It can occur in two different crystalline forms and one amorphous variety. The octahedral...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
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Image 40 of Locating and estimating air emissions from sources of arsenic and arsenic compounds. arsenic trioxide with concentrated nitric acid. Arsenic acid will lose water upon heating to 248 °F and forms pyroarsenic acid. At elevated temperatures, more water is lost and meta-arsenic acid forms. In...- Contributor: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
- Date: 1998