Control of VOC Emissions from Waste Management Facilities

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Concerns with emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities are increasing because of the emission quantity (1,600,000 to 5,000,000 metric tons per year) and toxicity and/or carcinogenicity. The sources of VOC emissions include impoundments and tanks, land treatment, landfills and waste piles, transfer and handling operations, and VOC removal devices. No regulation exists to control VOC emissions from those waste management facilities. This paper reviews the problems of VOC emissions from treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. It also examines the inherent effectiveness of control techniques for VOC emissions from such facilities. Conventional pollution control approaches focus on pretreatment, in situ methods, and posttreatment of wastes after generation. Such approaches have achieved some success, but they are expensive to implement and not 100% efficient, and may transfer VOCs from one physical form to another and from one environmental mediu...

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