Antimony.

Description

As a flame retardant, antimony is a component of many materials that find their way into waste incineration at the end of their life cycle. This report describes the sources and waste streams of antimony in waste incineration plants and identifies possible causes for increasing antimony loads. Part of the antimony passes into the flue gas when incinerated and is transferred to the waste water through the flue gas scrubbing, which is gradually purified. The regulation on water emissions under the Waste Water Emissions Ordinance on combustion gas currently provides for a limit value of 0.2 mg/l of antimony. How well suitable various chemical-analytical testing methods are to verify this limit has been investigated in a comparative laboratory test.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 https://www.umweltbundesamt.at/fileadmin/site/publikationen/REP0690.pdf

Tags

  • flammschutzmittel
  • abfallverbrennung
  • opendocument
  • antimon

Topics

Categories