Development of integrated, multi-modular, high-temperature systems for thermochemical processing of waste (and biomass) streams in the Circular Economy.

Thermal treatment of waste ('Waste-to-Energy'/WtE) is recognized as an essential keystone of the Circular Economy. It allows to recover energy and materials from waste streams which cannot be recycled for a number of reasons. Whereas state-of-the-art WtE plants are well optimized in terms of energy, recovery rates of metals, minerals and molecules, however, can still be improved.This project aims at the development of a conceptual design for an advanced thermal treatment of waste (and biomass), by anticipating to an improved homogeneity of waste streams in the future, and combining principles of incineration, gasification and pyrolysis into a single, multi-modular process. In such process, mass and energy flows can be optimized simultaneously, to establish an improved combined recovery rate of energy and materials.

Keywords:waste-to-energy

Disciplines:Thermal energy