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Joseph M Rogers1, Mary Stewart, James G Petrie
1University of Sydney, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Abstract:
Experiments were conducted to study CCA-treated wood combustion over a range of temperature and oxygen concentrations with a view to understanding the factors affecting energy and metals recovery from waste treated timber. CCA-treated wood was burned in a furnace at temperatures from 400 to 940 degrees C and oxygen concentrations between 5 and 21%. The ash and condensed volatiles were digested for total concentrations of metals and subjected to leaching tests to determine the stabilized concentrations of metals. Arsenic volatilisation increased with increasing furnace temperature whereas the copper and chromium reported mainly to the ash product. The effect of oxygen concentration was weak although it appeared that more arsenic volatilises at higher oxygen concentrations. However, a larger proportion of the arsenic in the ash generated at lower oxygen concentrations is solubilised during leaching tests, with the result that the concentration of stabilized arsenic in the ash is relatively unaffected by oxygen concentration.
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