Influence of memory effect caused by aged bag filters on the stack PCDD/F emissions

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• 作者：Hsing-Wang Li ; Lin-Chi Wang ; Chun-Chi Chen ; Xing-Yi Yang ; Guo-Ping Chang-Chien ; Edward Ming-Yang Wu
• 关键词：PCDD/Fs ; Memory effect ; Bag filter ; Incinerator ; Electric arc furnace ; Start-up
• 刊名：Journal of Hazardous Materials
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：30 January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：185
• 期：2-3
• 页码：1148-1155
• 全文大小：850 K

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To our best knowledge, this study is the first research which investigates whether the PCDD/F memory effect could also be caused by bag filters. In this study, the PCDD/F characteristics of the flue gases in front of and behind the bag filters of one municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) and two electric arc furnaces (EAFs) were investigated to clarify the memory effect of PCDD/Fs and their influence on emissions. After the bag filters were operated for over four years, the PCDD/F concentrations in the stack flue gases were all higher than those prior to the aged bag filter, rendering a negative PCDD/F removal. This memory effect is because gaseous phase PCDD/Fs are released from the contaminated filters of the aged bag filters. The release of 2,3,7,8-TeCDF, 1,2,3,7,8-PeCDF and 2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF from the contaminated filters of the EAFs increased the PCDD/F concentration and their fractions in the stack flue gases. In contrast, the MSWI exhibited increasing fractions of 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD, OCDD after flue gases passed through its aged bag filter. The activated carbon of the MSWI adsorbed more lower chlorinated-substituted PCDD/Fs in the raw flue gases, and the remaining higher chlorinated congeners gradually accumulated on the aged filters, and were released in lower PCDD/F concentration conditions.