
Gasification of Waste Materials
Technologies for Generating Energy, Gas, and Chemicals from Municipal Solid Waste, Biomass, Nonrecycled Plastics, Sludges, and Wet Solid Wastes
Description
Key Features
- Provides field demonstrations of large scale systems, their results and the challenges that need to be overcome when developing commercial applications and possible solutions
- Presents the most recent technologies in lab and demonstration scale
- Examines the critical development needs and real life challenges for the deployment of waste to energy technologies
- Provides information on the economics and sustainability of these technologies, as well as their future perspectives
Readership
Energy engineering and environmental engineering researchers, graduate students and industry professionals working on the planning, design and implementation of waste to energy systems. Municipal engineers and decision makers conducting due diligence evaluations on the economic and technical validity of waste to energy projects
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction and Background
2. Fundamentals of Gasification and Pyrolysis
3. Laboratory/Demonstration-Scale Developments
4. Field Scale Developments
5. Emissions
6. Critical Development Needs
7. Economic Summary
Product details
- No. of pages: 162
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: October 24, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127162
- eBook ISBN: 9780128127179
About the Authors
Simona Ciuta
Affiliations and Expertise
Demetra Tsiamis
Affiliations and Expertise
Marco J. Castaldi
Affiliations and Expertise
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