Advanced thermal treatment of auto shredder residue and refuse derived fuel

Taylor, Richard; Ray, Ruby; Chapman, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2012.11.071

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“…Separated soil-like materials, stones and metals were recycled as organic fertilizers and substrates, regenerated construction materials and regenerated metals. The materials with high calorific value can be treated by incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, plasma technologies, producing residual derived fuels (RDFs) and combinations for energetic valorization and energy recovery, and in particular, the Gasplasma™ WtE technology was mentioned as a sustainable approach of energetic waste valorization (Taylor et al, 2013;Bosmans et al, 2013). Land occupied by the landfills could be reclaimed for the usage of urban and industrial development or societal benefits (e.g.…”

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A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

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a b s t r a c tLandfill mining is an environmentally-friendly technology that combines the concepts of material recycling and sustainable waste management, and it has received a great deal of worldwide attention because of its significant environmental and economic potential in material recycling, energy recovery, land reclamation and pollution prevention. This work applied a cost-benefit analysis model for assessing the economic feasibility, which is important for promoting landfill mining. The model includes eight indicators of costs and nine indicators of benefits. Four landfill mining scenarios were designed and analyzed based on field data. The economic feasibility of landfill mining was then evaluated by the indicator of net present value (NPV). According to our case study of a typical old landfill mining project in China (Yingchun landfill), rental of excavation and hauling equipment, waste processing and material transportation were the top three costs of landfill mining, accounting for 88.2% of the total cost, and the average cost per unit of stored waste was 12.7 USD ton À1 . The top three benefits of landfill mining were electricity generation by incineration, land reclamation and recycling soil-like materials. The NPV analysis of the four different scenarios indicated that the Yingchun landfill mining project could obtain a net positive benefit varying from 1.92 million USD to 16.63 million USD. However, the NPV was sensitive to the mode of land reuse, the availability of energy recovery facilities and the possibility of obtaining financial support by avoiding post-closure care.

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A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

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“…Nevertheless, the information from the demonstration plant is sufficiently reliable to understand the behaviour of organics in a two-stage process and assess the capacity of plasma to crack and reform problematic components, such as tars and thiophenes, without excessive boundary layer effects. A full and more detailed description of the apparatus and plant operation is available in the literature and not reported in this paper [28,29].…”

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Reforming of tars and organic sulphur compounds in a plasma-assisted process for waste gasification

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“…In Taylor et al (2013), the carbon conversion efficiency and mechanical energy of an experiment with RDF, similar to the one described by is reported to be 99% and 94%. These values correspond well with the ones for the oxy-steam single-stage plasma gasification in Case 7 (101% and 91%), although those might need to be slightly downgraded.…”

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“…The residual slag from the experiment was characterized to comply with the Flemish legislation for use as a secondary building material, however, no conclusive results were obtained about the performance of syngas production, because of the non-optimal design. Taylor et al (2013) treated RDF from MSW with the Gasplasma process, which comprises an oxy-steam bubbling fluidised bed gasifier and the subsequent plasma converter. The results of experiments on this two-step system show the effective generation of a clean syngas with high carbon and energy conversion efficiencies, and which composition compares well with theoretical predictions.…”

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Plasma gasification of refuse derived fuel in a single-stage system using different gasifying agents

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The renewable evolution in the energy industry and the depletion of natural resources are putting pressure on the waste industry to shift towards flexible treatment technologies with efficient materials and/or energy recovery. In this context, a thermochemical conversion method of recent interest is plasma gasification, which is capable of producing syngas from a wide variety of waste streams. The produced syngas can be valorized for both energetic (heat and/or electricity) and chemical (ammonia, hydrogen or liquid hydrocarbons) end-purposes. This paper evaluates the performance of experiments on a single-stage plasma gasification system for the treatment of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from excavated waste. A comparative analysis of the syngas characteristics and process yields was done for seven cases with different types of gasifying agents (CO2+O2, H2O, CO2+H2O and O2+H2O). The syngas compositions were compared to the thermodynamic equilibrium compositions and the performance of the single-stage plasma gasification of RDF was compared to that of similar experiments with biomass and to the performance of a two-stage plasma gasification process with RDF. The temperature range of the experiment was from 1400 to 1600 K and for all cases, a medium calorific value syngas was produced with lower heating values up to 10.9 MJ/Nm(3), low levels of tar, high levels of CO and H2 and which composition was in good agreement to the equilibrium composition. The carbon conversion efficiency ranged from 80% to 100% and maximum cold gas efficiency and mechanical gasification efficiency of respectively 56% and 95%, were registered. Overall, the treatment of RDF proved to be less performant than that of biomass in the same system. Compared to a two-stage plasma gasification system, the produced syngas from the single-stage reactor showed more favourable characteristics, while the recovery of the solid residue as a vitrified slag is an advantage of the two-stage set-up.

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Advanced thermal treatment of auto shredder residue and refuse derived fuel

Cited by 62 publications

References 10 publications

A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

Reforming of tars and organic sulphur compounds in a plasma-assisted process for waste gasification

Plasma gasification of refuse derived fuel in a single-stage system using different gasifying agents

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