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Mixing, Modelling and Measurements of Incinerator Bed Combustion
- Source :
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 78:21-32
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2000.
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Abstract
- The safe disposal of municipal solid waste has now become an urgent environmental problem. The traditional method of landfilling waste has created so many environmental problems that countries including Denmark, Holland and Germany have imposed severe restrictions on landfilling burnable waste. With up to 1 tonne of municipal waste being generated by every individual annually in the UK, incineration is now at the forefront of combustion research, as developed countries recognize the environmentally friendly advantages of this technology. An efficient incinerator is not only assessed by the amount of heat recovery but also by the levels of emissions and quality of the ash it produces. Incinerator designs must therefore be fully optimized so that they can control emissions by reducing the production of harmful pollutants such as dioxins, furans, NOx and SOx. Hence, incinerator bed combustion is a vital area that urgently needs further investigation. At SUWIC, the present work concentrates on the development of a comprehensive and reliable model for the incinerator bed combustion process. The results from the incinerator burning bed model can then provide the much needed boundary conditions for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of the gas phase reacting turbulent flow in the freeboard region of an incinerator. In addition to the development of the computational model, the work involves several parallel activities, including experimental investigations into waste combustion, solid mixing and prevention of slag formation and instrumentation development.
- Subjects :
- Pollutant
Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Municipal solid waste
Incinerator bottom ash
Mobile incinerator
Waste management
business.industry
General Chemical Engineering
Environmental engineering
Combustion
Environmentally friendly
Incineration
Heat recovery ventilation
Environmental Chemistry
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09575820
- Volume :
- 78
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b7dfb4779e6648122af34cbbeb4213f3