Demonstration of thermal plasma gasification/vitrification for municipal solid waste treatment
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- Title
- Demonstration of thermal plasma gasification/vitrification for municipal solid waste treatment
- Authors
- Byun, Y; Namkung, W; Cho, M; Chung, JW; Kim, YS; Lee, JH; Lee, CR; Hwang, SM
- Date Issued
- 2010-09-01
- Publisher
- American Chem. Socie.
- Abstract
- Thermal plasma treatment has been regarded as a viable alternative for the treatment of highly toxic wastes, such as incinerator residues, radioactive wastes, and medical wastes. Therefore, a gasification/vitrification unit for the direct treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW), with a capacity of 10 tons/day, was developed using an integrated furnace equipped with two nontransferred thermal plasma torches. The overall process, as well as the analysis of byproducts and energy balance, has been presented in this paper to assess the performance of this technology. It was successfully demonstrated that the thermal plasma process converted MSW into innocuous slag, with much lower levels of environmental air pollutant emissions and the syngas having a utility value as energy sources (287 Nm3/MSW-ton for H-2 and 395 Nm(3)/MSWton for CO), using 1.14 MWh/MSW-ton of electricity (thermal plasma torch (0.817 MWh/MSW-ton) + utilities (0.322 MWh/ MSW-ton)) and 7.37 Nm(3)/MSW-ton of liquefied petroleum gas.
- Keywords
- RADIOACTIVE-WASTES; GASIFICATION; TECHNOLOGY; INCINERATION; VITRIFICATION; RESIDUE
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/25763
- DOI
- 10.1021/ES101244U
- ISSN
- 0013-936X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, vol. 44, no. 17, page. 6680 - 6684, 2010-09-01
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