ABSTRACT

The waste management is become a very crucial issue in many countries, due
to the ever-increasing amount of waste material, domiciliary and industrial generated.
The main strategies for the waste management are the increase of material recovery
(MR) which can reduce the landfill disposal, the improvement of energy recovery
(ER) from waste and the minimization of the environmental impact.
Recent studies have focused on an innovative technology, the plasma
gasification that has been demonstrated as one of the most effective and
environmentally friendly methods for solid waste treatment and energy utilization.
In this paper, a plasma gasification process based on plasma torch technology
has been investigated by developing a thermo chemical model (EPJ-EquiPlasmaJet)
able to estimate both the syngas composition and the energy required for the
gasification reactions. The EPJ model has been employed to predict the syngas
composition and the energy balance of a RDF (refuse derived fuel) plasma arc
gasification reactor using air as plasma gas, and, in order to define the optimal
operating conditions three different configurations have been investigated.
Results show that, in the better plant solution, the plasma gasification
efficiency is 69.1% (LHV) and the lower heating value of the syngas generated are
about 9 MJ/kg. Furthermore in order to evaluate the suitability of this technology for
energy recovery from solid wastes, the integration of the optimum plasma gasification
system (PGS) with a gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) has been analysed and the
performance of the resulting integrated plasma gasification combined cycle (IPGCC)
has been evaluated. The system efficiency (31% LHV) is very high in comparison
with the efficiency of conventional technologies based on waste incineration (20%).

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MANJEET KUMAR
JAMUDA.
REGD.NO:0821206017.
7th SEM.

MECHANICAL ENGG.