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W. L. Gore & Associates, the inventor of membrane filtration technology, brings you an efficient and cost-effective way to not just capture the solid phase particulates, but also destroy gaseous dioxins, before they exit your baghouse. The Gore solution is innovative, and yet simple: install different filters in your baghouse. No other process changes. No training. No costly new equipment. The Gore solution can benefit your bottom line, even as it makes your emissions safer for the environment.

GORE REMEDIA Catalytic Filter Bags simultaneously provide dust control and remove up to 99% of total dioxins and furans.

This paper describes the current status of air pollution control at the municipal waste incinerator of IVRO, Roeselare, Belgium, using the REMEDIA D/F catalytic filter system for dioxin/furan destruction and particulate control.

A municipal solid waste incineration plant in Hamura, Tokyo, was using powder-activated carbon injection to control dioxin/ furan emission. The plant management needed a solution to two simultaneous challenges: Increasing the facility’s waste incineration capacity by 14 % while mitigating the surrounding neighborhood’s concerns of high dioxin/furan emission.

The local government of a city in the Fukui prefecture (Japan) needed to revamp its MSW incineration facility to simplify operations and reduce costs. A key factor for the revamped facility was a potential replacement for its existing pollution control unit, which used a fixed-bed activated carbon with ancillary fire protection system to reduce post-incineration dioxin/furan emissions.

An incineration plant in Pennsylvania uses a rotary kiln incinerator with a downstream pollution control system to treat medical waste. In 2009, the EPA introduced a new emission guideline (EGs) for rotary kiln incinerators. In October 2014, the EGs was enforced at the plant, whose existing pollution control system complied with all components of the EGs except dioxin/ furans emission (D/F).

At an energy to waste facility in Kochi, Japan, power was generated by incinerating municipal waste using a stoker furnace, which incorporated pollution control units at the downstream. After heat recovery, the flue gas was further cooled down to 150 °C for the effective carbon adsorption of dioxin/furan. The gas was then passed through a filter baghouse to remove particulates. Finally, the gas was reheated to 210 °C for tail-end NOx reduction by an SCR tower.

The construction firm A&E was competing for a new MSW incineration facility at Okayama Prefecture (Japan). One of the facility’s core needs was to meet regulations for post-incineration emissions. As part of the bidding process, A&E committed to finding the best-available technologies to meet the project’s various technical scopes, including controlling post-combustion dioxin/furan emissions, all while minimizing the initial investment and ongoing operating costs.

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A paper first presented at the international conference on incineration and thermal treatment technologies, discussing the catalytic filter system at a medical waste incineration plant.