Thermal Treatment

worldwide. A look at thermal treatment technologies in China and Japan gives a sense of some of the novel solutions emerging in the market. T hermnl treatment facilities built in the 21 st century have been based mostly on the grate combustion of 'as received' municipal solid waste (MSW). Three dominant , technologies _ those developed by The only true A global perspective Martin, Von Roll, Keppel-Seghers have shown consistent growth of abom three million metric tonnes of new waste-to­ gasification process at an industrial scale The Waste-To-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT), headquartered at Columbia University in New York City, keeps a close watch on the thermal treatment technologies used worldwide. In 2006, nominations were energy (\VTE) capacity each year since is the Thermoselect 2000. In terms of novel technologies, direct smelting OFE, Nippon Steel), fluidized bed (Ebara) and circulating fluidized bed (Zhejinng University) have accounted for an additional estimated growth of another one million process ' solicited for the 2006 \VTERT lndustrial Award to be presented to an operating WTE facility