[Dioxin-l] Thank you Connie Hansson

[Alan Muller]

At 05:43 PM 1/8/00 -0800, David Ross wrote:
........

>It is the case, however, that there do exist combustion alternatives
>that can be developed to commercial scale to be at least as cost
>effective as incinerators.  In such systems, which are not at all
>exotic and use common materials, dioxins cannot form (temperatures
>too low), and indeed purposefully introduced dioxins are destroyed as
>rapidly as other chloroorganics.  The products are NaCl, CO2, and
>water.

Seems to me that dechlorination processes, sometimes using metallic sodium 
and ending with NaCl and etc, have been around for a while.  What is the 
extent of commercialization so far?  Pros and cons?

am


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