Recycling and Resource Recovery Engineering: Principles of Waste Processing

✍ Scribed by Prof. Richard Ian Stessel (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Environmental Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers mechanical processing of solid waste. It moves beyond a basic understanding of waste control to encompass waste processing as an industry expected to take its place alongside existing industrial raw materials suppliers. The author begins by describing the industry as it should develop, and then presents an advanced discussion of waste analysis, including a description of the features of a waste analysis laboratory. He goes on to describe universal design principles in waste processing, then discusses combustion, degradation, shredding, screening, air classification, metals separation, and automated materials detection. The focus throughout is on the analytic understanding of principles of operation necessary to undertake recycling and resource recovery with a cost-effective industrial approach. Richard I. Stessel has been doing research and design in resource recovery engineering for over 15 years. He is a registered Professional Engineer and board certified in Solid Waste Engineering by the American Academy of Environmental Engineer's Solid Waste Processing Division and chairs the Landfill and Composting Committee of the Air & Waste Management Association. Fachgebiet: Environmental Engineering Zielgruppe: Application

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Waste as a Resource....Pages 1-21
Waste Analysis....Pages 23-56
System Design....Pages 57-94
Energy Recovery....Pages 95-130
Size Reduction....Pages 131-148
Fluid Separation....Pages 149-180
Screening....Pages 181-204
Metals Recovery....Pages 205-227
Detect-and-Route Systems....Pages 229-238
Digestion....Pages 239-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-265

✦ Subjects

Waste Management/Waste Technology; Environmental Economics