MECHANICAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF INDUCTION-HEATED PYROLYSIS REACTOR FOR WASTE TREATMENT AND ENERGY RECOVERY
José Silvério Borela1; Anderson Gomes Ferreira1; Enoque Gertrudez2; Antonio Eustaquio de Melo Pertence1
1 UFMG; 2 Uni-BH
doi:10.20906/CPS/COB-2015-2036
Resumo
The global waste treatment policy has been developed with emphasis on incineration, aiming to reduce the amount of waste at final landfill disposal. Incineration has been the major waste treatment method until now. However, wastes cannot be treated as valueless garbage. Resource recovery and is one of the prime objectives in a sustainable waste management system. Conversion of medical waste (MW) to usable energy forms has gained much interest recently due to increase in energy cost as well as greater pressure on the environment by the use of fossil fuels. Thermal chemical conversion processes as pyrolysis and gasification are some of the favorable options that may be applied to effectively employ MW residue as source of energy production. In this experimental work, an induction-heated pyrolysis and gasification reactor is designed to evaluate the MW thermal chemical conversion process and stack gas emissions. This paper attempts to discuss the generalized design consideration for induction-heated pyrolysis and gasification reactors.
Palavras-chave: Pyrolysis; Waste-to-energy; Stack emissions; Induction-heated reactor