Control of Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions from Manufacturing

found for tests of incinerators at polymers and resins plants that
were conducted by the companies. )
The EPA test studies represent the most in-depth work available.
These data show the combustion efficiencies for full-scale incinerators
on process vents at four chemical plants. The tests measured inlet
and outlet VOC, by compound, at different incineration temperatures.
The reports include complete test results, process rates, and descriptions
of the test method. The four plants tested by the EPA are:
1. ARCO Polymers, Deer Park, Texas, polypropylene unit,
2. Denka Chemicals, Houston, Texas, maleic anhydride unit,
3. Rohm and Haas, Deer Park, Texas, acryl ic acid unit, and
4. Union carbide, Taft, Louisiana, acrylic acid unit.
The data from ARCO Polymers include test results based on three different
incinerator temperatures and three different waste stream combinations.
The data from Rohm and Haas also include results for three temperatures.
The data from Union Carbide include test results based on two different
incinerator temperatures. In all tests, bags were used for collecting
integrated samples and a gas chromatagraph with f1 ame ionization
detector (GC/FID) was used for obtaining an organic analysis.
D. 2.1 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Polymers Test ~ a t a ~
EPA conducted emission tests at the incinerator at the ARCO
Polymers, Inc., LaPorte polypropylene plant in Deer park, Texas (1 isted
as ARCO Chemical, Co., in LaPorte, Texas, in the 1982 Directory of
Chemical ~roducers3) to assess emission 1 eve1 s and VOC destruction
efficiency.
The ARCO polypropylene facility has a nameplate capacity of
181,000 Mg/yr (400 mil 1 ion I bslyr) .3 The facility produces polypropylene
resin by a liquid phase polymerization process. The facility includes
two "plants" (Monument I and Monument 11) comprised of a total of six
process trains producing a variety of polypropylene resins. Both
plants discharge their gaseous, liquid, and solid process wastes to
the same incinerator system where they undergo thermal destruction.
The wastes in the plants occur from:
a) processing chemical s and dilution sol vents for the catalyst,