Alternative-fuel-production facility for City of Huntsville, Alabama. Volume III. Technology development summary

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:7089273

The available technologies that reclaim thermal energy and/or materials from Muncipal Solid Waste (MSW) are surveyed. The following technologies for recovery of energy and materials are investigated: spreader stoker or suspension fired units for refuse derived fuel (RDF), mass burning incineration (refractory lined or waterwall units), modular incinerators, pyrolysis, and methane recovery.

• Research Organization: Huntsville, City of, AL (USA); Wegman (Leonard S.) Co., Inc., Buffalo, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG01-80RA50296
• OSTI ID: 7089273
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/50296-3; ON: DE83002890
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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320305 -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Industrial Waste Management
320604* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Municipalities & Community Systems-- Municipal Waste Management-- (1980-)
ALKANES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
INCINERATORS
METHANE
MUNICIPAL WASTES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PYROLYSIS
RECOVERY
REFUSE DERIVED FUELS
SOLID WASTES
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WASTES
WATERWALL INCINERATORS