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Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes
A Volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition
320 illus., 258 illus. in color. eReference. online resource.
This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of complementary strategies for dealing with waste in and around urban areas: Waste-to-energy power plants (WTEs) and recycling. Chapters in this volume describe how these plants can be built within or near cities to transform the non-recycled residues of society into electricity and heat, and the recovery of metals using recycling technology and management techniques. The latter includes resource recovery from construction and demolition and electronic waste streams. With nearly one thousand WTE plants worldwide, waste incineration has become increasingly important as a means of closing the materials life- cycle loop. China leads in the beneficial use of these residues with about 30 new WTEs built in each of the last three years, and with plans for at least another 300 with one or more in each large city. In addition, increasing numbers of cement plants use "waste" materials as alternative fuels. Since currently all of these plants combust less than 20% of the available wastes, and the remainder ends up in landfills or dumps, this sector represents a huge market in the making.This comprehensive reference is suitable for readers just entering the field, but also offers new insights for advanced researchers, industry experts, and decision makers.
Construction and Demolition Wastes -- Fly Ash -- Gasification and Liquefaction Alternatives to Incineration in Japan -- Greenhouse gas emission reduction by Waste-to-Energy -- Hitachi Zosen Inova technology -- Incinerator Grate Combustion Phenomena -- Life Cycle Comparison of Waste-to-Energy to Sanitary Landfill -- Martin Waste-to-Energy Technology -- Plasma-assisted Waste-to-Energy Processes -- Recycling Technologies -- Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling, Environmental Impacts -- Thermal Treatment of Waste: Key Element for Sustainable Waste Management -- Waste Collection and Transport -- Waste Management for Sustainable Society -- Waste Materials in Construction, Utilization of -- Waste-to Energy: Decreasing the Entropy of Solid Wastes and Increasing Metal Recovery -- Waste-to-Energy Ash Management in Europe -- Waste-to-Energy Ash Management in United States -- Waste-to-Energy Facilities as Power Plants -- Waste-to-Energy for District Heating -- Waste-to-Energy using Refuse-derived Fuel -- Waste-to-Energy, Introduction -- Waste-to-Energy: Energy Resource in Solid Wastes -- Waste-to-Energy: Fluidized Bed Technology.
edited by Nickolas J. Themelis, A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas.
Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series