Large-Scale Plasma Waste Gasification

Author

Tavares, Jason Robert ; Rao, Lakshminarayana ; Derboghossian, Chawki ; Carabin, Pierre ; Kaldas, Aïda ; Chevalier, Philippe ; Holcroft, Gillian

Author_Institution

PyroGenesis Canada Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

39

Issue

11

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2908

Lastpage

2909

Abstract

The plasma resource recovery system is a two-stage plasma gasification and vitrification system used to process municipal solid waste. A transferred arc discharge is used to generate syngas from the waste, and an air plasma torch is used to polish the gasification products. Online syngas monitoring can be employed to compensate for variations in waste feed, thus maintaining both the syngas composition (quality) and production rate.

Keywords

arcs (electric); condition monitoring; fuel gasification; plasma applications; plasma torches; syngas; vitrification; waste management; air plasma torch; large-scale plasma waste gasification; municipal solid waste process; online syngas monitoring; plasma resource recovery system; syngas composition analysis; transferred arc discharge; two-stage plasma gasification; vitrification system; Arc discharges; Furnaces; Heating; Hydrocarbons; Monitoring; Plasmas; Production; Arc furnace; chemical engineering; energy resources; gasification; plasma applications; plasma torch; waste management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2011.2138723

Filename

5762637