Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes (Economic, Technical, and Renewable Comparisons) || How Can Plasma Arc Gasification Take Garbage to Electricity and a Case Study?

✍ Scribed by Young, Gary C.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 575 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470539674
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470608616.ch2

✦ Synopsis

Background: Many areas have a need for establishing and/or extending a landfill. As an alternative to the existing concept of a landfill, recently developed and early commercialization in Plasma Arc technology has been applied to the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW). This recent development would eliminate or minimize the need for a landfill and this approach is known as Plasma Arc Gasification process for the treatment of MSW. A Plasma Arc Gasification facility with a 500 ton/day capacity has been stated as the size necessary for treating the Linn County MSW. Thus, this capacity was selected as reasonable with economy of scale for conducting a preliminary economic analysis.