Gasification of waste materials : technologies for generating energy, gas, and chemicals from municipal solid waste, biomass, nonrecycled plastics, sludges, and wet solid wastes / Simona Cuita, Demetra Tsiamis, Marco J. Castaldi.

• Introduction and background -- Fundamentals of gasification and pyrolysis -- Laboratory/demonstration-scale developments -- Field scale developments -- Emissions -- Critical development needs -- Economic summary.

• "'Gasification of waste materials' explores the most recent gasification technologies developed worldwide to convert solid wastes into energy, synthesis gas, and chemical products. The authors examine the thermodynamic aspects, reaction mechanisms, and kinetic contraints of using municipal solid waste (MSW), biomass, nonrecycled plastics, sludges, and wet solid wastes as feedstock. They identify the distinctions between pyrolysis, and different types of gasification including plasma, hydrothermal, and supercritical systems. A comprehensive summary of laboratory and demonstration activities is presented, as well as field scale systems that have been in operation using solid waste streams as input, highlighting their areas of disconnect and alignment. The book also provides a summary of information on stack emissions, comparing them with other thermal conversion systems using similar feedstock. It then goes on to assess the areas that must be improved to ensure gasification systems become as successful as combustion systems operating on waste streams, ranging from feedstock processing to gasifier output gas clean-up, downstream system requirements and corrosion. The economics and future projections for waste gasification systems are also discussed. For its consolidation of the current technical knowledge, this book is recommended for engineering researchers, graduate students, industry professionals, municipal engineers, and decision makers when planning, designing, and deploying waste to energy projects, especially those using MSW as feedstock"--Back cover.

Subject headings

Waste products as fuel.  (LCSH)

Biomass gasification.  (LCSH)

Thermochemistry.  (LCSH)

Publication and Content Type

TP360 (LCC)