Municipal solid waste fuels produced

In the United States about 3 percent of all electricity produced comes from renewable sources of this a little more than half comes from biomass. Most biomass energy generation comes from the lumber and paper industries from their conversion of mill residues to in-house energy. Municipal solid waste also is an important fuel for electricity production approximately 16 percent ot all municipal solid waste is disposed of by combustion. Converting industrial and municipal waste into bioenergy also decreases the necessity for landfdl space. 

Study of the Substitution of Fossil Fuels by RDF Produced from Municipal Solid Waste of Hanoi A Case Study... 

Ethanol can also be produced from cellulose (qv) or biomass such as wood (qv), com stover, and municipal solid wastes (see Fuels frombiomass Fuels FROMWASTE). Each of these resources has inherent technical or economic problems. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is operating a 2 t/d pilot plant on converting cellulose to ethanol. 

Incineration is a rapid, exothermic reaction between a fuel (waste) and oxygen (O2). Incineration produces the same end products and by-products, whether the material burned is municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, or medical waste. This is because of the fact that complex fuel molecules first undergo thermal decompositions upon being preheated by the preceding flame, forming smaller molecules such as methane, acetylene, ethylene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and alike, and it is the combustion of these smaller molecules that primarily influence the nature of combustion products and pollutants formed. This aspect of combustion chemistry has significantly helped in the development of detailed kinetic mechanisms of combustion for all types of hydrocarbon fuels. Solid decomposition... 

The pyrolysis of municipal solid waste (MSW) Is a promising method of producing useful fuels. However, the reaction mechanisms are not well understood. Current DOE/ANL research Is directed at gaining a better understanding of the basic thermoklnetlc mechanisms associated with the pyrolytic conversion of MSW. 

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