I have attached an article entitled "Transforming Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into Fuel via

the Gasification/Pyrolysis Process" published in 2010.

Also, here is the URL:

http://nswaienvis.nic.in/Waste_Portal/Technologies/Gasification/Transforming%20Municipal%20Solid%20Waste%20(MSW)%20into%20Fuel%20via.pdf

Hope this helps answer your question.

Professor Yehia Khalil

Yale University

USA

Hi Prof. Khalil--

Thank you for the reference containing a single study of MSW/RDF conversion.

However, I was hoping for more of a commercial set of results (rather than bench-scale TGA or drop-tube reactor test set-up results).

Might you (or anybody else)be familiar with a review article comparing various gasification hardware arrangements?

Thanks in advance,

--Keith

@KeithDPatch

Hello Keith,

Here is a review article published in 2015.

Hope this article would be useful for your purpose.

Professor Yehia Khalil

Yale University

USA

If you look for MSW gasification and pyrolysis today only Japan can really satisfy, even though the preference for this type of processes, starting ca. 1998, has been reversed again during recent years, following the Fukushima disaster. One of my conference papers at Depotech, Leoben, Austria, deals with this situation.

If you like confronting present day achievements with those of a distant past, there is also our review published in 1985, addressing RDF on the one hand, pyrolysis and gasification on the other.

Another and different source of inspiration may come from Finland today.

Enlarging the scope to biomass, the Güssing plant (Burgenland, Austria), really works, converting wood chips into heat & power.

In case of further interest, I can try and retrieve these earlier review papers. With time, the name of the projects evolve, yet the difficulties to be surmounted remain the same.

Maybe you can find information in this website with information about the gasification industry and plants, and corresponding links with other information:

http://www.gasification-syngas.org/resources/the-gasification-industry/