Mixing and Combustion in a Municipal Waste Incinerator

Health risk assessment of a modern municipal waste incinerator.

During the modernization of the municipal waste incinerator (MWI, maximum capacity of 180,000 tons per year) of Metropolitan Grenoble (405,000 inhabitants), in France, a risk assessment was conducted, based on four tracer pollutants: two volatile organic compounds (benzene and 1, 1, 1 trichloroethane) and two heavy metals (nickel and cadmium, measured in particles). A Gaussian plume dispersion ...

Cleaning of Municipal Waste Incinerator Flue Gas in Europe

The paper discusses the various methods used in Europe to reduce emissions of pollutants from the stack gases of municipal incinerators. With respect to NOx, the paper mentions two experimental postcombustion control approaches involving the addition of chemicals to the wet-scrubber system to oxidize or reduce the NOx to absorbable NO 2 or dischargeable N 2. As pointed out , these methods would...

Environmental Burden of Disease from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator

Exposure evaluation of dioxins in municipal waste incinerator workers.

In Japan, the largest source of dioxin is solid waste incineration plants. Because workers employed at these plants handle fly ash and slag contaminated by dioxins, they can take dioxins into the body during work and their health may be adversely effected. This paper describes the dioxin exposure concentration, daily dioxin intake and blood dioxin level in workers employed at municipal incinera...

The first municipal solid waste incinerator project in Southeast Europe

Purpose The City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is in the project preparation phase for a publicprivate partnership (PPP) project for the provision of services of treatment and disposal of residual municipal solid waste (MSW), including the construction and operation of a waste to energy (WtE) facility. The objective of this work was to perform a social cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for a co...