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Published in final edited form as: Waste Manag. 2019 Feb 18;87:398–406. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.031

Table 6.

Gasification/combustion emission factors determined here compared to combustion emissions from burning of simulated forward operating base waste.^a

Compound	Unit	Gasification/combustion	Burn box (Aurell, et al., 2012)	Burn pile (Aurell, et al., 2012)	MRE OBTF (Dominguez, et al., 2018)
Σ PCDD/PCDF	ng TEQ/kg waste	3.8 ± 2.8	35 ± 24	1,765 ± 1,474	1.802 ± 1.040
Ʃ PAH^b	mg/kg waste	11 ± 9.8	43 ± 50	129 ± 50	96 ± 37
PM	g/kg waste	0.39 ± 0.22	12 ± 12^c	39 ± 24^c	12 ± 3^c
Iron	mg/kg waste	0.32 ± 0.18	0.50 ± 0.24	11 ± 23	0.29 ± 0.05
Copper	mg/kg waste	1.2 ± 0.40	0.18 ± 0.11	0.89 ± 0.92	0.17 ± 0.06
Cadmium	mg/kg waste	0.0058 ± 0.0031	0.063 ± 0.082	0.073 ± 0.033	0.089 ± 0.038
Lead	mg/kg waste	0.68 ± 0.36	0.55 ± 0.42	0.37 ± 0.22	0.07 ± 0.01
Benzene	mg/kg waste	43 ± 98^d	243 ± 299^d/1,371 ± 185^e	260 ± 288^d/2,421 ± 1,265^e	211 ± 89^d
Toluene	mg/kg waste	2.0 ± 2.8^d	88 ± 130^d/652 ± 111^e	109 ± 170^d/1,202 ± 727^e	63 ± 36^d
Acrolein	mg/kg waste	0.61 ± 1.1^d	133 ± 139^d/463 ± 33^e	98 ± 108^d/757 ± 62^e	125 ± 40^d
Vinyl chloride	mg/kg waste	0.27 ± 0.35^d	3.7 ± 2.5^d/13^e	6.0 ± 5.5^d/26 ± 3.3^e	0.55 ± 0.27^d
Vinyl acetate	mg/kg waste	0.62 ± 0.82^d	79 ± 97^d/324 ± 46^e	43 ± 53^d/688 ± 195^e	101 ± 41^d

^a

Range of data denoted ± 1 STDV.

^b

16 EPA PAHs (see Tables S14 and S15).

^c

PM2.5.

^d

MCE > 0.95.

^e

MCE < 0.90.