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Organic and inorganic pollutants from cement kiln stack feeding alternative fuels

Juan A JA Conesa, Araceli A Gálvez, Fernán F Mateos, Ignacio I Martín-Gullón, and Rafael R Font

J Hazard Mater 158(2-3):8 (2008) PMID 18374482

In this work, an analysis of the emission of different pollutants when replacing partially the fuel type used in a cement kiln is done. The wastes used to feed the kiln were tyres and two types of sewage sludge. The increasing mass flow of sludge is between 700kgh^-^1 and 5500kgh^-^11, for a total production of clinker of 150th^-^1, whereas the fed tyres were in the flow range of 500-1500kgh^-^1. Dioxins and furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other hydrocarbons, heavy metals, HCl and HF, CO, CO"2, NO"x and other parameters of the stack were analyzed, according to the standard methods of sampling and determination, through more than 1 year in six series: one blank (no sewage sludge) and five more with increasing amount of sludge and/or tyres. The emission of PAHs and dioxins seems to increase with the amount of tyres fed to the kiln, probably due to the fed point used for this waste.

Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.01.116
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