Incineration of Cellulose and Surrogate Solid Wastes

After the bulk of the food waste (90%) has been removed from the given solid waste, the waste material wiU have the following composition 6.75% food material (30% bone representing 75% hydroxyapatite and 25% organics, and 70% food representing 50% organics and 50% water), 62.22% paper (consisting [Pg.645]

The organic portion of solid wastes has a carbon-hydrogen-oxygen ratio similar to that of cellulose (CeHioOsln, a polymer that is widely present in nature [21, 25, 26, 30]. It is therefore expected that the thermal destruction behavior of cellulose will provide useful information on the organic portion of the solid waste. A pyrolysis process can be represented as [Pg.646]

Hydrocarbons (waste) - - heat = gaseous products - - solid char [Pg.646]

The pyrolysis products include both the gas and solid phases. For gas phase, it is mostly carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC). Experimental and calculated results obtained here show that an increase in pyrolysis temperature results in the formation of lower molecular weight hydrocarbon gases as well as a decrease in the fraction of solid residue. In contrast the calorific value and the volume of pyrolyzed gases increases. [Pg.646]

Pyrolysis experiments on cellulose have been performed in the CMHR using the plasma jet as heat source. The plasma flow rate was set at 25 liters/min while the plasma power was varied from 3.3 to 32 kW. The temperature in the test [Pg.646]

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