Materials and energy used for the construction of modern waste incineration plants were quantified. The data was collected from five incineration plants (72,000-240,000 tonnes per year) built in Scandinavia (Norway, Finland and Denmark) between 2006 and 2012. Concrete for the buildings was the main material used amounting to 19,000-26,000 tonnes per plant. The quantification further included si...

Incineration is a widely used and well established technology for the municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Modern MSW incineration plants are equipped with improved air pollution control (APC) systems, which reduce pollutants well below the established limits. The environmental concern has, thus, moved from the air emissions to the solid residues generated from the APC systems of the inciner...

Plutonium-contaminated solid wastes including combustible, incombustible and chlorine contained waste have been generated during Mixed Oxide,(MOX) fuel fabrication by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Incinerations of chlorinated wastes cause the problems related to corrosion of the equipments and dust loading in the vent exhaust system. The JAEA has designed and manufactured a new type incine...

(2014) " Resource recovery from hazardous waste – the case of MSW incineration fly ashes " In: Proceedings " 4th International Conference Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management", 2.-5. SUMMARY: In the European Union almost 78 million tons of waste are annually combusted in Waste-to-Energy plants. Solid residues generated thereby contain altogether about 72,000 t/a of Zn, of which more than 5...

A detailed assessment of an incinerator based on fuel consumption and cycle time data is presented in this paper. The study was conducted at Temeke district hospital for 22 months consecutively covering 654 days of daily data collection on waste loading rate fuel consumption and cycle times. The composition for the medical waste incinerated varied between 15% and 35% for sharps waste and betwee...

Refuse incineration data for New York City (NYC) have been compiled as a function of time during the 20th century to assess the historical significance of this pollutant source in a densely populated area. Thirty-two municipal and 17,000 apartment house refuse incinerators were identified. Approximately 1.1 x 10(8) t of refuse (wet weight) were combusted in NYC incinerators between 1908 and 199...

Different management options of the organic fraction (OF) generated in a given urban area were analyzed by a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach for different source segregation (SS) intensities ranging from 0% up to 52%. Best management options for the different SS values were represented by the presence of incineration for processing the amount of OF remaining in the residual waste (ROF). Th...

SUMMARY: In Europe almost 80 million tons of waste are annually combusted in Waste-to-Energy plants. Solid residues generated thereby contain altogether about 69,000 t/a of Zn, of which more than 50 % accumulates in air pollution control (APC) residues. Recent research activities aiming at Zn recovery from APC residues resulted in a large scale Zn recovery plant at a Swiss waste incinerator. By...

With the decline in the number of rendering operations due to industry consolidation and concern about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) transmission, disposal of dairy and beef cattle mortalities by rendering either is not an option or is prohibitively expensive in many areas of the United States. On-site burial remains an alternative in many states, but impact on ground water quality is ...

Waste plastics are harmful, toxic, and non-biodegradable. Environmental impacts of waste plastics are raised concern about all over the world for safe and friendly environment. Due to dense population and environmental effects of the major city in the world dumping, incineration and land filling are faced difficulties and challenges. At this circumstances vast of waste plastics are remained vul...