SBIR Phase I: Photochemical Treatment of Dioxin-Furans Compounds from Industrial Air Emissions

这一小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将评估光化学技术销毁剧毒有机化合物二恶英-呋喃的技术和经济可行性，这些化合物具体包括四至八取代多氯二苯并二恶英和二苯并呋喃。 光化学技术的目的是在二恶英-呋喃化合物从工业设施释放到环境中之前将其销毁。 美国环境保护局（EPA）认为二恶英-呋喃对公众健康构成严重威胁，并对多种类型的工业熔炉和窑炉的二恶英-呋喃排放制定了严格的限制。 空气控制技术专业委员会已开发出一种光化学技术，用于销毁二恶英-呋喃;然而，还需要开展更多的工作，以确认这种控制方法的有效性。 在SBIR第一阶段研究期间，空气控制技术，P.C.将在两个工业设施进行计算机动力学建模和试验工厂测试。 这项研究工作的结果将使空气控制技术，P.C.确定光化学技术的能源需求、运行成本和二恶英-呋喃销毁效率。这项研究的广泛影响将是防止公众接触有毒的二恶英-呋喃，并为工业设施提供一种经济的手段，以实现严格的二恶英-呋喃排放限制。 空气控制技术公司认为，二恶英-呋喃的光化学处理将同时减少其他污染物的排放，如甲醛和氨，这些污染物也存在于工业窑炉的废气流中。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of a photochemical technique for destroying a highly toxic group of organic compounds known as dioxin-furans and consisting specifically of tetra- through octa-substituted polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans. The photochemical technique is designed to destroy dioxin-furan compounds prior to their release to the environment from industrial facilities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that dioxin-furans are a serious threat to public health and has established stringent limitations applicable to dioxin-furan emissions from many types of industrial furnaces and kilns. Air Control Techniques, P.C. has developed a photochemical technique for the destruction of dioxin-furans; however, more work is needed to confirm the effectiveness of this control approach. During this SBIR Phase I research, Air Control Techniques, P.C. will perform computer kinetic modeling and pilot plant testing at two industrial facilities. The results of this research work will allow Air Control Techniques, P.C. to determine the energy requirements, operating costs, and dioxin-furan destruction efficiency of the photochemical technique. The broader impact of this research will be to prevent exposure of the public to toxic dioxin-furans and provide an economical means for industrial facilities to achieve stringent dioxin-furan emission limitations. Air Control Techniques, P.C believes that photochemical treatment for dioxin-furans will simultaneously reduce emissions of other contaminants such as formaldehyde and ammonia also present in the effluent gas streams of industrial furnaces and kilns.