Energy from waste conversion process

Municipal solid waste (MS W) represents a significant resource for energy recovery operations. Energy from waste (EfW) conversion process is considered one of the most efficient commercially available technologies for the production of power, combined heat and power, and liquid biofuels via the Fischer—Tropsch reaction (Howes and Warren, 2013). 

Processing and Recovery The functional element of processing and recoveiy includes all the techniques, equipment, and facilities used both to improve the efficiency of the other functional elements and to recover usable materials, conversion products, or energy from solid wastes. Materials that can be recycled are exported to facilities equipped to do so. Residues go to disposal. 

The purpose of this subsection is to introduce the reader to the tech-niqiies and methods used to recover materials, conversion products, and energy from solid wastes. Topics to be considered include (I) processing techniques for solid waste, (2) processing techniques for hazardous wastes, (3) materials-recoveiy systems, (4) recovery of biological conversion products, (5) therm processes, and (6) waste-to-energy systems. 

A biorefinery is a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and eqtrip-ment to produce fuels, power, and value-added chemicals from biomass. Biorefinery is the co-production of a spectram of bio-based products and energy from biomass. The biorefinery concept is analogous to today s crude oil refinery. Biorefinery is a relatively new term referring to the conversion of biomass feedstock into a host of valuable chemicals and energy with minimal waste and emissions. 

This paper is concerned with the potential for production of liquid fuels from biomass in Canada. To this end, the availability and cost of wood wastes, surplus roundwood, bush residues, energy plantation trees, and municipal solid wastes (mostly cellulosic) are assessed and promising thermal, chemical and biochemical conversion processes reviewed. 

S. Moriya, Study of recycled fuel oil for diesel engine extracted from waste plastics disposals by the Ecology Process, Proceedings of the 35th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, 24-27 July 2002. 

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