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- Presents waste incineration as an alternative to landfills and composting, especially in densely populated regions
- Provides a balanced assessment of the benefits and challenges of this complex method of waste management
- Includes a survey of the technical basis of flue-gas cleaning and incineration
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book places waste incineration within the wider context of waste management, and demonstrates that, in contrast to landfills and composting, waste incineration can eliminate objectionable and hazardous properties such as flammability and toxicity, result in a significant reduction in volume, and destroy gaseous and liquid waste streams leaving little or no residues beyond those linked to flue gas neutralization and treatment. Moreover, waste incineration sterilizes and destroys putrescible matter, and produces usable heat.Â
Incineration Technologies first appeared as a peer-reviewed contribution to the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. It provides detailed treatment of the challenges of this technically complex process, which requires huge investment and operating costs, as well as good technical skills in maintenance and plant operation. Particular attention is paid to technologies for ensuring the complete burn-out of flue gas and residues and for controlling the resulting pollutants.
Keywords
- Air Equivalence Ratio
- Combustion Residues
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- HHV
- Higher Heating Value
- Immission
- Incineration Emissions
- Incineration Gasification
- Incineration Technologies
- Incineration Technologies Sustainability
- MSW
- Municiple Solid Waste
- Pyrolysis
- RDF
- Refuse-derived Fuel
- Waste-to-Energy
- WtE
Authors and Affiliations
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Alfons Buekens
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Incineration Technologies
Authors: Alfons Buekens
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5752-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5751-0Published: 03 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5752-7Published: 04 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 93
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Renewable and Green Energy