Study of refuse handling equipment for use in burning shredded trash
A study of refuse handling equipment for use in burning shredded trash as a supplementary fuel for power-plant boilers is being conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Laboratories for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. At the end of the first year, EPA awarded Battelle an additional 15 month, $300,000 grant. Ordinary farm equipment is used to handle refuse at the Columbus, Ohio, municipal light plant. The trash is stored in forage haulers and moved to the boilers on conveyors. At the boiler, the trash is spread over the coal firebed with silo blowers. Most of the trash burns in suspension and the heavier and larger pieces burn on the boiler grates. Studies on the pollution and corrosion effects of combining solid waste with coal showed that the alkali and heavy-metal chlorides in the trash react with sulfur oxides from the coal to produce combustion products that are cleaner than those resulting from coal and less corrosive than those from refuse. The use of a 70 percent trash/30 percent coal mixture could reduce the costs of powerplant fuel by as much as 50 percent.
- OSTI ID:
- 7099614
- Journal Information:
- J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States), Vol. 25:12
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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