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Cremation Association of North America Environment <br />Testing Plan: <br />The Woodlawn Cemetery facility was chosen because the All Crematory <br />equipment installed there is typical of many facilities and also because it is <br />one of the only crematories in North America with additional pollution control <br />equipment. Water scrubber devices are installed in the exhaust ducts to clean <br />the combustion gases. <br />During each test run, sampling of the combustion gases was conducted both <br />upstream and downstream of the water scrubber device to determine how <br />effective the device was. <br />As recommended by the CANA environmental team, testing was conducted <br />under three different secondary chamber operating temperatures to get a <br />clear picture of how emissions change with temperature. A series of tests took <br />place at each of the following temperatures: 1400°F; 1600°F; and 1800°F. <br />Initially, EPA planned to test only at 1600°F and 1800°F. However, CANA felt <br />it was important to test at 1400°F and decided to pay the full cost of the <br />additional testing because many older facilities cannot operate at the higher <br />temperatures. <br />Three cremations were performed at each temperature condition. For the <br />results of the averages of the three cremations for each temperature condition <br />click here. <br />The following are the pollutants for which emission standards are to be <br />established and for which testing was conducted: <br />. visible emissions <br />• particulate matter <br />. carbon monoxide <br />. nitrogen oxides <br />. sulfur dioxide <br />. hydrogen chloride <br />. metals (cadmium, <br />. dioxins and furans <br />mercury, and lead) <br />Test Results and Graphs <br />Return to Top <br />[About CANA] [Memhers.hi_p] [Publications] [For. Consumers] <br />[FAQs] [Statistics] [Environment] [Links] �ore <br />info <br />�. Copyright0 2000, 2001 Cremation Association of North America. <br />� �-`" All rights reserved. <br />Developed and hosted by ProAcces__s, Inc. <br />Questions or comments to webmaster�proaccess.net <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />http://www.cremationassociation.org/html/environmenthtml 06/2�/2�01 <br />