Operating experience with refuse burning boilers
Incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) with energy recovery is a relatively new technology in the United States. Although this technology has been in operation for several decades in Europe and Japan it was not given serious consideration in the United States until the early 1970s. Limited sites for landfill facilities inspired the investigation of alternate means of disposal of MSW. This investigation resulted in the emergence of two technologies: Refuse Derive Fuel (RDF) and Mass Burn. RDF is defined as a light burnable refuse resulting from processing of MSW by shredding and removal of non-combustible materials. Preparation and incineration of RDF was first demonstrated in 1972 at Union Electric in St. Louis, Missouri. Mass burn technology has been in operation in Europe and Japan for over three decades. MSW is fed into the incinerator without major processing except for the removal of bulky non-combustible material such as refrigerators, washing machines, engine blocks, etc. Basically there are two types of mass burn incinerators, the modular combustion units (MCU) and waterwall type. MCU has two combustion chambers, and the capacity is usually limited to 50 TPD or less. This paper addresses the operating experiences in the waterwall type of Waste to Energy mass burn incinerators.
- OSTI ID:
- 6461873
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8610266-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Purdue industrial conference on environmental regulation of industrial energy facilities, West Lafayette, IN, USA, 1 Oct 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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COMBUSTION
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