Cement Kiln Emissions
Service Description
Gossman Consulting, Inc. provides clients
with the
full range of effort necessary to determine cement kiln emissions, and
what
those emissions are to the environment. Although an obvious source of
emissions
is the stack many other sources exist. These can include CKD landfills,
fuels
and ancillary equipment, the clinker cooler, raw materials, etc. To
properly
investigate these emissions requires not only an understandingof the
process
but also the regulations and how they apply to the source, as well as
the
theory and practice of source sampling and analysis. Our experienced
team of
professionals and partners have determined
the
regualtory requirements, written the appropriate test plans,
participated in
and overseen the execution of these plans, and monitored and evaluated
the
quality of the data for a large number of devices under a variety of
conditions. GCI's experience executing the functions in source sampling
and
analysis provides our team with a unique background and knowledge of
emissions
from cement kilns and the potential problems that can exist. This
experience is
invaluable to our clients in aquiring the appropriate and realistic
quality
data needed for submittal to state or federal agencies, or to the
public, or to
industry lobbying groups, or simply for internal decision making.
Experience
David Gossman
- Acted as QA/QC manager for one of the
first comprehensive RCRA Trial Burns at a cement plant.
- Performed a comprehensive review of a
proposed update to SW-846.
- Performed a detailed QA/QC review of
mercury emission data used by EPA to develop/justify MACT controls on
cement kilns.
- Performed a detailed QA/QC review of
dioxin examination data from cement plants not utilizing hazardous
waste fuels.
- Acted as QA/QC manager for 1995 update
ROC tests at multiple cement plants.
- Performed a detailed QA/QC review of
dioxin emission data compromising over 20 tests at a single cement
plant, both under baseline conditions and while burning hazardous waste.
- Assisted with the preparation of Trial
Burn Plans for a number of cement kilns using hazardous waste. Plans
incorporated latest EPA guidance on data required for multi-pathway
risk assessments.
- Managed and wrote the reports for BIF
compliance tests/trial burns at four cement plants.
- Developed and managed the
implementation of stack testing plans for cement manufacturers using or
planning on the use of hazardous waste fuel. Tests were performed to
satisfy state air permit authorities as well as provide data to be used
for future EPA requirements.
- Performed the first comprehensive,
published study on the fate of trace metals in the cement manufacturing
process. The study provided special insight on how recirculating loads,
as well as the point of introduction, can effect the fate of metals in
cement kilns.
Existing SOLUTIONS
GCI has prepared a number of papers relevant to cement kiln
emissions. (If a
link to a paper title is not yet available please e-mail with your fax
number
for a copy.)
"2,3,7,8-TCDD Equivalent Emissions from Cement Kilns Burning
Hazardous
Waste"
"Continental Cement Trial Burn Strategy"
"Quality Control Review of Mercury and
PCDD/PCDF
Emissions Data From Cement Kilns Used for MACT Evaluations”
"Continental Cement Trial Burn Strategy
Follow-up"
"The Design of A Custom Database System for
Storing and Accessing Point Source Emission Test Data and Associated
Process
Conditions"
GCI Tech Notes "A Caution in the Use of
Analytical
Data in Calculating TEQ Values for Dioxin Reporting”, Dec-95
GCI Tech Notes "Appropriate Sampling Frequency
for
Cement Process Samples During Stack Testing”, July-95
HWF Notes "Clean Air Act Hazardous Air
Pollutant
List”, Oct-94
HWF Notes "Review of Guidance on Trial Burns”,
Aug-94
"A Comparison of Normal and Worst Case Cement Plant Emissions”
GCI Tech Notes "Why All Cement Kilns
Should
Test Their CKD" June-97
GCI Tech Notes "The Impact of CKD Recycling on
“HCl” Emissions from the Wet Process Cement Kiln”, Aug-9
GCI Tech Notes "The Potential for CKD
Insufflation
to Impact Metals Emissions from Cement Kilns”, Sept-95
HWF Notes "The Clean Air Act and Cement Kiln
NOx
Emissions”, June-93