Review on the Need of a More Efficient Three-Phase ACPlasma Combustion/GasificationSystem for All Solid Waste Including Hazardous and Biomass
Journal Title: International Journal of engineering Research and Applications - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 10
Abstract
Population growth, rising standard of living, urbanization, diversification of consumption materials cause increasing of waste materials and energy consumption. In the world, thousands of wastes occur every day, and most of these wastes come from solid wastes such as household, industry, agriculture, municipal wastes, etc. This increase in solid wastes is one of the most important environmental problems in the world. Conversion of these wastes into energy during the disposal process is significant importance in terms of prevention of environmental pollution, public health, and renewable, sustainable energy. Landfilling which is the simplest waste treatment method currently appears as the less preferable method for following reasons: first, the lack of land available, especially in the most populated regions. Second, landfilling causes the production of powerful hazardous gases and chemicals that can contaminate the soil and water, posing a risk to the public health and the environment. Also, other thermal methods such as incineration,gasification, and pyrolysis have been developed in order to obtain steam or electric energy by means of disposing of the biomass and solid wastes. However, these methods need to use of additional burners working with natural gas and heavy fuel. This leads to increase the cost of biomass and solid wastes combustion/gasification and additional damage to the environment. Additionally, the regulations on the protection of the environment are getting stricter. However, meeting these requirements with existing technologies will not be possible soon. In near future, combustion/gasification assisted with plasma systems for solid waste and also for coal seem to be the most promising technologies. These systems are preferred because of not only to obtain high energy efficiency but also not to create environmental problems destroying all types of wastes including toxic and hazardous structures. This paper covers existing systems especially based on plasma systems emphasizing advantages and disadvantages and how to make these systems more efficient and economically advantageous for waste to energy application. This paper, also, covers in more detail a literature review of three-phase AC plasma torches to be used for waste gasification which have been developed in France and Russia for many years and installed at our facility (AR&TeCS) in Turkey newly.
Authors and Affiliations
T. Yasar Katircioglu, Sedanur Toraman, Çağlar Terzi
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