Waste Incineration Plants – State of the Art

On one hand, waste management should bematerial-efficient. An ideal waste management system produces only twocategories of substances, i.e. re-usable material and material for finalrepository focussing on the principal of concentration of environmentally harmfulmaterial and conversion of environmentally compatible material into an earthcrust- or soil-like form. On the other hand, a distinguishing feature of asound waste management system is energy-efficiency. Thermal combustion (burningof waste in order to obtain energy) has become a very important factor for thechoice of location of a so-called waste to energy (WtE) plant. The heatreleased during the thermal treatment of waste should be used efficiently toproduce district heat, process heat and electricity.