Potential Applications of Vitrified Slag as a Product of Plasma Arc Melting

The present article presents the potential of vitrified slag, one of the products of plasma arc melting, for further industrial applications based on previous experiments. The existing publications on the investigation into this field is hence supplemented with our series of experiments conducted using vitrified slag from plasma arc gasification and melting of fly ash from municipal waste, as well as a mixture consisting of fly ash produced by fluidised-bed boilers in a heat power plant and recovered asbestos cement roofing sheets. It should be noted that the process of plasma arc gasification and melting facilitates not only a significant reduction of the quantity of processed hazardous wastes, but also a possibility of transforming such wastes into an inert product, which may be used as an input raw material in certain industrial processes.

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Operating and environmental performances of commercial-scale waste gasification and melting technology by Nobuhiro Tanigaki, Yasuka Fujinaga, Hirohisa Kajiyama, and Yoshihiro Ishida. Waste Management & Research 2013; 31: 1118–1124, DOI: 10.1177/0734242X13502386. The authors regret that they omitted the following declaration of conflicting interest in the article: Declaration of Conflicting Interest At the time of publication, all authors were employed by Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. Technology developed by Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd is reported on in this manuscript.

Theoretical Calculation and Analysis on the Gasification and Melting Process of MSW with Oxygen-Enriched Air

Gasification and melting process is an environmentally friendly technology in municipal solid wastes (MSW) disposal. But it requires that the waste has lower moisture content. The author hopes to find a route can be used for the treatment of high moisture content MSW through gasification and melting by theoretical calculation and analysis. In this paper, firstly calculate the influence of moisture content on MSW calorific value and exhaust smoke temperature. Then calculate the influence of oxygen concentration on exhaust smoke temperature. Finally appropriate process parameters of gasification melting for high moisture content MSW are given.