Inventory of World-wide PCB Destruction Capacity

0,57
MB

72
stron

618
ID Secretariat of the Basel Convention

1999
rok

PREFACE

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2 THE INVENTORY

3 BACKGROUND

4 THE QUESTIONNAIRE

5 DECONTAMINATION PROCESSES FOR PCB-CONTAMINATED EQUIPMENT

6 DESTRUCTION PROCESSES FOR PCB WASTES

6.1 Incineration

6.2 Dechlorination processes

6.2.1 Chemical dechlorination

6.2.2 Hydrotreating

6.2.3 Solvated Electron Technology

6.3 Plasma Arc systems

6.4 Landfilling

7 STORAGE & TRANSPORT

8 WORLD-WIDE CAPACITY FOR PCB DESTRUCTION

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.2 Africa

8.3 Europe

8.4 Asia-Pacific

8.5 West Asia

8.6 Latin America and Caribbean

8.7 North America

8.8 respondent’s Concerns

8.9 Research and Development needs

8.10 SUMMARY

Appendices

APPENDIX 1 COPY OF QUESTIONNAIRE

APPENDIX 2 INFORMATION SOURCES

APPENDIX 3 TECHNICAL GUIDELINES ON WASTES COMPRISING OR CONTAINING PCBs,

PCTs