Abstract
The development of national plans to reduce the emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is one of the key requirements of the Stockholm Convention on POPs. Preliminary expert assessments show that the energy sector of Ukraine is the second largest producer of POPs after metallurgy. The largest sources of POPs emissions with relatively small volumes of combustion are plants that burn municipal solid waste and biomass. Optimizing the composition of the input fuel/raw material should provide a significant potential for reducing POPs emissions in such installations. Extraction of components that can become precursors or catalysts for the synthesis of dioxins during municipal solid waste incineration can be carried out through large-scale application of separate collection and preliminary mechanical and biological processing of waste. For biomass with high chlorine content and ash content (straw), it is advisable to use combined combustion with fossil fuels or waste containing dioxin synthesis inhibitors. When using biomass as an auxiliary fuel in industrial boilers and furnaces, it is advisable to equip gas cleaning systems with devices for sorption and catalytic removal of dioxins. Bibl. 28, Tab. 3.
Publisher
The Gas Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine