Energy from waste incineration — a state of the art emissions review with an emphasis on public acceptability

Porteous, Andrew

doi:10.1016/s0306-2619(01)00021-6

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“…A Reynolds number greater than 10,000 is recommended and the most effective incineration furnaces have Reynolds number of 50,000 or greater. From this, it is possible to retrofit existing Cement rotary kilns to MSW incineration to minimize dioxin production [12,13]. The nature of the rotary kiln, which allows flame residence times of the order 2-5 s and reaches temperature as high as 2000°C make cement kilns a competitive alternative to commercial incinerators for MSW.…”

Section: Minimizing the Dioxin Production During Incineratingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Status and prospect of the application of municipal solid waste incineration in China

Liu

2006

Applied Thermal Engineering

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Section: Minimizing the Dioxin Production During Incineratingmentioning

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Status and prospect of the application of municipal solid waste incineration in China

Liu

2006

Applied Thermal Engineering

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“…The currently installed capacity of 33 million ton/yr, which is provided by about 330 MBT plants in Europe, is expected to increase up to 46 million ton/yr and 440 plants within the next decade [11]. MBT, which is characterized by the implementation of material specific treatment, can be combined with energy recovery and/or material recycling and represents a valid and often preferential alternative to conventional thermal waste-to-energy (WtE) plants, as WtE plants face opposition by local populations in many EU member states [12][13][14].…”

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Refuse recovered biomass fuel from municipal solid waste. A life cycle assessment

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“…In the waste management industry, pyrolysis and gasification are generally considered emerging technologies [1,2]. Although well known as in arenas such as the conversion of coal into town gas, they have been slow to be taken up in waste management.…”

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A critical review of developments in the pyrolysis of automotive shredder residue

Harder

Forton

2007

Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

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Worldwide, automotive shredder residue (ASR) is considered an increasingly problematic mixture of materials that needs the development of a processing solution.Pyrolysis is a process that has many advantages to offer, but despite many studies and developments in recent years at various levels of commercialisation, it is still generally considered unproven for this purpose. This paper critically considers developmental work published in the field, presents new results, and suggests that a major reason for the lack of development is the complexity of the landscape created by strong, competing, economic, legislative, environmental and commercial drivers, which in turn make it unclear which products and processes are optimal. This is made doubly complex by the natural variation in the material composition of ASR, with contaminants that can critically affect its potential fate to anywhere in the range from hazardous waste, to energy source, to useful raw material for major cement or steel industries.New data on critical factors such as levels of chlorine and metals in raw and pyrolysed ASR are presented, alongside a much-needed summary of previously published values from references that are often difficult to source. The summaries emphasise the variation in the material, but also indicate rough boundaries for values, which are needed for the design of any potentially successful process. 3It is suggested that the heterogeneity seen across ASR types implies that specialised processing of SR on its own is unlikely. It is pointed out that small-scale processes that could be suitable for local requirements should be considered for development as they could be able to optimise a process sufficiently to make it viable, e.g. specialised local waste streams of paper pulp and a particular fraction of SR.

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Energy from waste incineration — a state of the art emissions review with an emphasis on public acceptability

Cited by 80 publications

References 2 publications

Status and prospect of the application of municipal solid waste incineration in China

Status and prospect of the application of municipal solid waste incineration in China

Refuse recovered biomass fuel from municipal solid waste. A life cycle assessment

A critical review of developments in the pyrolysis of automotive shredder residue

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