Heat Recovery in Waste to Energy Plants

Taking into consideration commitments of Poland regarding efficient municipal waste management resulting from the membership in the European Union, the market for offering Municipal Waste to Energy (WtE) plants is becoming more and more important currently in Poland. In connection with the above, in the following article we tried to present the current knowledge and experiences in the heat recovery sector, i.e. heat recovery boilers applied in WtE plants.

The problem of municipal waste in Poland is still solved on a large scale through its storage. Undoubtedly this is the most negative way of handling municipal waste for the environment. In Polish conditions, apart from such factors as:

(i) shrinking areas of still active waste dumping sites and shortage of new dumping sites causing more and more trouble,

(ii) social consciousness of environmental hazards related to municipal waste dumping sites becoming more and more common and

(iii) growing consciousness of obvious wasting of materials and raw materials, that are irretrievably lost at waste disposal, the influence of European Union legislation is the most significant causative factor of introducing changes in the field of efficient management of municipal waste.

Therefore it is the legal premises causing that in order to meet strict requirements of binding law, it is necessary to start as soon as possible management of municipal waste through their incineration and recovery of energy included in waste.

Copyright:	© TK Verlag - Fachverlag für Kreislaufwirtschaft
Quelle:	Waste Management, Volume 2 (September 2011)
Seiten:	11
Preis inkl. MwSt.:	€ 0,00
Autor:	M.Sc. Eng. Tomasz Dobrzycki Dr. Eng. Jerzy Miroslaw M.Sc. Eng. Witold Stogniew

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