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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 10:35 WET DST From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Fluidized bed incineration technology (knick)
Oct. 16, 1997
Dear Knick,
Fluidized bed combustors are relatively new combustors in the US, though they have been used for at least 7 years inJapan, Norway, Sweden. There was one operating in Duluth, MN in the early 1990s as well. It improves the combusion reaction, allows a wider variety of materials to be burned including high moisture materials, and can be smaller in size. I believe that it can be used for burning refuse derived fuel, principally, i.e. it is not a 'mass burn' technology.
Sources of info on comparisons of different systems can be found in standard combustion textbooks, of which there are many. In addition, use:
- Burning Garbage in the US: Practice vs. State of the Art by Marjorie J. Clarke, et. al. (INFORM , 1991)
- Municipal Waste Combustion Assessment by US EPA, Air Energy Engineering Research Lab, Research Triangle Park, NC. The original number was EPA-600/8-89-063, 8/89 was the date. It is multivolume and should be available from NTIS.
- a series of conferences on Ash, simply called, Ash 1, Ash 2, etc. are held each year and ought to be instructive.
- Wheelabrator Corp., now a division of Waste Management, Inc. is located in Hampton, NH. Their perspective, that of a large scale, multinational practitioner, would be instructive.
Additionally, there is no shortage of US EPA and National Renewable Energy Lab documents from the late 1980s to the early 1990s on various WTE technologies. Check with NTIS on this.
- Research Library for RCRA