Gasification of municipal solid waste in the Plasma Gasification Melting process

Applied Energy

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-112

  Zhang, Qinglin ^b   Dor, Liran ^a   Fenigshtein, Dikla ^a   Yang, Weihong ^b   Blasiak, Wlodzmierz ^b  

^a Environmental Energy Resources Ltd   (Israel)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gasification; Melting; Plasma; Syngas; Waste

Indexed keywords

CALORIFIC VALUE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GASIFICATION; HEAVY METALS; MELTING; PLASMAS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SLAGS; STEAM; STEAM ENGINEERING; STEAM REFORMING; SYNTHESIS GAS; TAR; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR GASIFICATION; AIR NOZZLES; AIR SUPPLY; ENERGY LOSS; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; GAS YIELDS; GASIFIERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR; LOWER HEATING VALUE; MASS RATIO; PLASMA GASIFICATION; PLASMA POWER; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RESIDUAL HEAT; STEAM GASIFICATION; SYN-GAS;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

BIOREACTOR; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MELTING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PLASMA; SLAG; TAR; UPDRAFT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 80055042180     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.041     Document Type: Article

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