A New Study for Energy Recovery from Municipal Refuse Processing by Thermal Treatment

Abstract

We are now facing to the era of difficulty in recuring a necessary amount of petroleum in Japan and we must proceed the save-energy programs before the development of the alterrative energy.Concerning to the municipal refuse processing, it is possible to obtain the higher thermal efficiency by the improvement of operating conditions in the con-ventional power plant alone or the applications of the system with another heat utilization in addition to the power plant or the system combined with another energy using process.In this paper, several save-energy programs are studied through calculating thermal efficiency of these systems for various LHV (Lower Heat Values) of ref use.