Incinerator

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-014014",
  "term": "Incinerator",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A furnace for the routine burning of waste materials using controlled flame combustion.\n\n2. Refers to a furnace for burning solid waste under controlled conditions. (U.S. EPA,1994d)\n\n3. A furnace for burning waste under controlled conditions.\n\n4. An enclosed device that uses controlled flame combustion and does not meet the criteria for classification as a boiler, industrial furnace, sludge dryer (a unit that dehydrates hazardous sludge), or carbon regeneration unit (a unit that regenerates spent activated carbon). Incinerators also include infrared incinerators (units that use electric heat followed by a controlled flame afterburner) and plasma arc incinerators (units that use electrical discharge followed by a controlled flame afterburner).\n\n5. Engineered device using controlled flame combustion to thermally degrade PCBs and PCB Items. Examples of devices used for incineration include rotary kilns, liquid injection incinerators, cement kilns, and high temperature boilers. [40 CFR 761.3 (CFR 2013)]Enclosed air pollution control device that uses controlled flame combustion to convert combustible materials to noncombustible gases. For the purposes of this subpart, the term “incinerator” means “regenerative thermal oxidizer”.\n\n6. Any enclosed combustion device that is used for destroying organic compounds and does not extract energy in the form of steam or process heat. [40 CFR 60.661 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 60.611 (CFR 2013)]\n\n7. Any furnace used in the process of burning waste for the primary purpose of reducing the volume of the waste by removing combustible matter.\n\n8. For the purposes of this industry, an enclosed combustion device that thermally oxidizes volatile organic compounds to CO and CO2. This term does not include devices that burn municipal or hazardous waste material.\n\n9. Any enclosed device that uses controlled flame combustion and neither meets the criteria for classification as a boiler, sludge dryer, or carbon regeneration unit, nor is listed as an industrial furnace\n\n10. Enclosed combustion device that is used for destroying VOC.\n\n11. Enclosed combustion device that is used for destroying organic compounds. If there is energy recovery, the energy recovery section and the combustion chambers are not of integral design. That is, the energy recovery section and the combustion section are not physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit but are joined by ducts or connections carrying flue gas.\n\n12. Enclosed combustion device that is used for destroying organic compounds. Auxiliary fuel may be used to heat waste gas to combustion temperatures. Any energy recovery section is not physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit with the combustion section; rather, the energy recovery section is a separate section following the combustion section and the two are joined by ducts or connections carrying flue gas. The above energy recovery section limitation does not apply to an energy recovery section used solely to preheat the incoming vent stream or combustion air.\n\n13. Enclosed air pollution control device that uses controlled flame combustion to convert combustible materials to noncombustible gases.\n\n14. Enclosed combustion device that is used for destroying organic compounds, with or without heat recovery. Auxiliary fuel may be used to heat waste gas to combustion temperatures. An incinerator may use a catalytic combustion process where a substance is introduced into an exhaust stream to burn or oxidize contaminants while the substances itself remains intact, or a thermal process which uses elevated temperatures as a primary means to burn or oxidize contaminants.\n\n15. Enclosed combustion device with an enclosed fire box that is used for destroying organic compounds. Auxiliary fuel may be used to heat waste gas to combustion temperatures. Any energy recovery section present is not physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit with the combustion section; rather, the energy recovery section is a separate section following the combustion section and the two are joined by ducts or connections carrying flue gas. This energy recovery section limitation does not apply to an energy recovery section used solely to preheat the incoming vent stream or combustion air. [40 CFR 63.12005 (CFR 2013)]\n\n16. Any device, including a flare, designed to reduce the volume by combustion. This includes air curtain incinerators, but does not include open burning.\n\n17. Inclosed air pollution control device that uses controlled flame combustion to convert combustible materials to noncombustible gases. For the purposes of this subpart, the term “incinerator” means “regenerative thermal oxidizer”.",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "Pesticides Glossary",
    "Measuring Recycling Guidance Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "40 CFR 63.1381 (CFR 2016)",
    "40 CFR 60.611a (CFR 2024)",
    "40 CFR 61.31 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.801 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 260.10 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 60.561 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 60.701 (CFR 2013)",
    "40CFR 63.761 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.1381 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.1579 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.101 (CFR 2024)",
    "40 CFR 49.123 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.1196 (CFR 2016)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/incinerator/"
}