A Study of Ammonia Source at a Portland Cement Production Plant |
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| Authors: | J. L. Cheney K. T. Knapp |
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| Affiliation: | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Research Triangle Park , North Carolina , USA |
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| Abstract: | A source and process sampling study was conducted at a dry process Portland Cement production plant. The study was performed to determine the nature of the formation of a highly visable plume related to the kiln emissions. One aspect of the study focused on the source or point of NH3 within the production process. An extensive number of process solids from raw feeds to baghouse solids were collected and analyzed for NH4 +. Samples were analyzed for NH4 + both by washing the solids with 0.1 N H2SO4 and by collecting NH3 in impingers as it was evolved from heated solids. The results showed that NH4 + was present in many process samples and that the collection efficiency of NH4 + in the baghouse was related to baghouse temperature. The data also showed that NH3 was derived from the shale used in the raw feed at this cement production plant. |
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