Solid Waste Preprocessing: the Return of an Alternative to Mass Burn
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چکیده
Several resource recovery projects financed in the last 5 years incorporate preprocessing systems for fuel preparation and materials recovery prior to combus tion. These projects represent a return to a system of resource recovery which experienced many technical problems in several projects built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The purpose of this paper is to review the history of solid waste preprocessing, describe the tech nical advances employed in the new preprocessing sys tems, and discuss some of the reasons preprocessing is returning to popularity.
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