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ProfessorGAC

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1. The Concern Is Warranted
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 06:25 PM
Jan 2022

However, I would consider the public health risks to be even greater than the environmental risks.
Incineration creates carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide & hydrogen fluoride. CO is readily oxidized over a palladium catalysts to CO2.
But, HF is a highly toxic, very aggressive acid.
It can be scrubbed in a counterflow KOH absorber, but controls have to be well interlocked. The correct amount of HF passing through the scrubber is NONE!
I'd want more detail on how the incinerator system is designed, the control architecture, redundancies, and interlocks before I would think this is a good idea.

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