Environmental Protection Agency, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH 45268

A -- DEMONSTRATION OF REAL-TIME INCINERATOR EMISSION MONITORS POC: Marta K. Richards, (513)569-7692. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory (RREL), in conjunction with the Department of Energy, Office of Technology Development (OTD), is conducting a demonstration program to evaluate continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMs) for measuring metals and organic compounds in stack emissions from waste combustion/thermal treatment devices. The demonstration program will be conducted at the EPA Incineration Research Facility (IRF) in Jefferson, Arkansas, using the pilot-scale rotary kiln incinerations system (RKS) at the facility. This announcement seeks CEM developers for participation in the program. To be considered, the CEMs must be capable of providing the stack gas concentration of the monitored constitutent(s) either continuously or semicontinuously within a short repetitive cycle. Metals CEMs must be capable of measuring stack gas concentrations of one or more of the following metals at or approaching the detection limits (ug/m3) indicated in parentheses: antimony (5), arsenic (5), barium (5), beryllium (0.5), cadmium (5), chromium (5), cobalt (5), lead (50), manganese (5), mercury (5), nickel (5) selenium (50), silver (5), and thallium (5). Organic CEMs must be capable of measuring stack gas concentration of one or more of the following organic compounds at a detection limit at or approaching 1ug/m3: benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chlorobenzene, chloroform, dichlorobenzenes, dichloroethanes, dichloroethenes, formalhehyde, methylene chloride, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g., naphthalene), tetrachloroethene, toluene, trichloroethanes, trichloroethene, and vinyl chloride. CEMs for other organic compounds (e.g., dioxin) are also invited to reply. Developers having prototype CEMs meeting the above specifications and wishing to be considered for inclusion in the demonstration program are invited to respond to this announcement by submitting a proposal to Marta K. Richards. Written responses must be received within 30 calendar days of publication of this announcement. Each response shall include: a description of the CEMs including the principal of operation and system schematic, constituents measured with measurement detection limit, limitations on stack gas characteristics for CEM application, other system application limitations, current status of development, schedule for availability of a prototype system for evaluation, and a statement of the terms under which the prototype will be made available for evaluation. Only responses committing to having a prototype system available for demonstration testing on or before June 30, 1995, will be considered. CEMs will be selected for inclusion in the demonstration program based on several factors, including: an assessment of the probability that the prototype will meet developer claims, number of constituents of each generic class (metals and organics) the system can simultaneously measure, constituent detection limit, response time, schedule proposed for prototype availability, and the favorability of the terms of prototype availability for testing to RREL/OTD. Detailed test protocols will be available to CEM vendors selected for demonstration. (364)

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