Why energy from waste incineration is an essential component of environmentally responsible waste management

Porteous, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2005.02.008

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“…These systems not only utilize deinking and paper sludges, but also material mined from existing onsite landfills to mitigate ground water contamination problems. Fluidized bed combustion is rapidly becoming the ultimate solution for the final disposal of paper mill wastes (Busbin, 1995;Fitzpatrick and Seiler, 1995;Davis et al, 1995;Albertson, 1999;Porteous, 2005;Oral et al, 2005). Table 6 summarizes installations at pulp mills which burn some portion of pulp sludge (CANMET, 2005).…”

Section: Incineration or Combustionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Waste management from pulp and paper production in the European Union

et al. 2009

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Eleven million tonnes of waste are produced yearly by the European pulp and paper industry, of which 70% originates from the production of deinked recycled paper.Wastes are very diverse in composition and consist of rejects, different types of sludges and ashes in mills having on-site incineration treatment. The production of pulp and paper from virgin pulp generates less waste but the waste has similar properties to waste from the production of deinked pulp, although with less inorganics. Due to legislation and increased taxes, landfills are quickly being eliminated as a final destination for wastes in Europe, and incineration with energy recovery is becoming the main waste recovery method. Other options such as pyrolysis, gasification, land spreading, composting and reuse as building material are being applied, although research is still needed for optimization of the processes. Due to the large volumes of waste generated, the high moisture content of the waste and the changing waste composition as a result of process conditions, recovery methods are usually expensive and their environmental impact is still uncertain. For this reason, it is necessary to continue research on different applications of wastes, while taking into account the environmental and economical factors of these waste treatments.

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Section: Incineration or Combustionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Waste management from pulp and paper production in the European Union

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“…That processes include efficient incineration in fluidized bed and circulating fluid bed combustion chambers (Nickull, 1991;Kraft, 1993;Busbin, 1995;Fitzpatrick and Seiler, 1995;Porteous, 2005;Oral et al, 2005) as well as more sophisticated processes for energy recovery as pyrolysis (Frederik et al, 1996;Kay, 2002;Fytili and Zabaniotou, 2008;Lou et al, 2011, Jiang andMa, 2011), indirect steam gasification (Durai-Swamy et al, 1991;Demirbas, 2007), wet oxidation (Johnson, 1996;Kay, 2002;Maugans and Ellis, 2004;Fytiliand and Zabaniotou, 2008), super critical water oxidation (Modell et al, 1992;Dahlin, 2002;Kay, 2002) and gasification (CANMET, 2005). Advances and drawbacks of energy recovery from PMS are well described in peer reviewed literature .…”

Section: Pms For Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in Paper Mill Sludge Management

Likon¹,

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2012

Industrial Waste

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“…Incineration is an important method because it can reduce the volume and the mass of the waste by 90% and 70%, respectively (Kirby and Rimstidt, 1993;Hjelmar, 1996;Li et al, 2004a;Medici et al, 2000). Incineration can also destroy pathogenic agents and generate thermal energy that can be reused (Marani et al, 2003;Porteous, 2005). However, the emission of bioavailable HMs during the incineration process is of concern (Belevi and Moench, 2000;Song et al, 2004;Hopes et al, 2003;Renoux et al, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%