USE OF TDF AS A SUPPLEMENTAL FUEL AT OTHER INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES

Several coal-fired boilers at industrial manufacturing facilities have reported using TDF as a supplemental fuel on a commercial or test basis. Further, TDF has been considered as a secondary fuel at several boilers firing biomass or refuse-derived fuel (RDF). This chapter summarizes information obtained on some of these facilities. 

Note that data from a boiler burning TDF at a silicon manufacturing facility, Dow Coming in Midland, Michigan, are reported in Chapter 5 with waste wood boilers, because the primary fuel for this boiler is wood chips. Further, data on TDF use at Boise Cascade, an other manufacturing facility, are included in Chapter 4 with cement manufacturing, because the rotary kiln used to manufacture lime is similar to the rotary cement kilns. 

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