Energy recovery from municipal and other waste

Abstract

The article summarizes possibilities of energy recovery from municipal and other waste. It describes the history of incineration and energy recovery from municipal waste in Czechoslovakia and then in the Czech Republic. The attention is paid to the three currently operated plants for energy recovery from municipal waste in the Czech Republic (ZEVO Maleice, SAKO Brno, TERMIZO Liberec, and ZEVO Chotfkov). The following are the characteristics of the planned plants for energy recovery from municipal waste in the Czech Republic. All these plants operate essentially based on grate boilers with flue gas treatment at the highest technical level. The article also lists other technologies, which can be used for energy recovery from municipal waste - these are gasification and pyrolysis units. The final part of this contribution is devoted to the emission values of flue gases from pyrolysis plant.