Energy recovery from refuse derived fuels (RDF) and packaging derived fuels (PDF) is one option in integrated waste management. Nine RDF and PDF co-combustion tests with peat and coal in a circulating fluidized bed boiler were carried out in this work. Heavy metal emissions in flue gas and fly ash were measured. Multivariate data analyses were used to find out the most important parameters affecting metal emissions in the flue gas.
The results showed that total heavy metal emissions were low. Although RDF and PDF had more heavy metals than peat and coal, the multivariate data analysis showed that an increase of the RDF or PDF share in the fuel mixture up to 20% did not correlate directly with the metal emissions in the flue gas. Distribution of Cd, Cu, Zn and Sn between flue gas and fly ash correlated with each other. Injection of limestone to bind sulphur and chlorine did not have a significant effect on heavy metal emissions in the flue gas. Heavy metals concentrated on the fly ash, but all fly ashes passed the EPA-TCLP tests. 相似文献
Fluidized pellet bed (FPB) has been successfully applied in water and wastewater treatment. However, the removal mechanism of
contaminants especially the soluble ones, is still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the e ectiveness of FPB reactor for removing
soluble contaminants from synthetic wastewater. By only coagulation through jar test operation with addition of polyaluminium chloride
(PACl) as primary coagulant and polyacryamide (PAM) as coagulant-aid, the removals of soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD),
total phosphorus (TP), and NH4
+-N were found to be only 2.2%–7.5%, 5.7%–25.5%, and 9.9%–18.5%, respectively. However, by FPB
operation under the same dosage of coagulants, these values increased to 82.7%, 37.2%, and 50%, indicating that the formation of
pellets in the FPB e ectively enhanced the removal of soluble contaminants. By careful comparison of the settleablility and filterability
of the pollutants after coagulation, the originally soluble contaminants could be divided into three groups, namely: (1) coagulated-andsettleable,
(2) coagulated-but-nonsettleable, and (3) uncoagulable. It was found that not only the first two groups but also a large part of
the third group could be e ectively removed by FPB operation. However, the mechanism for the removal of the uncoagulable pollutants
by FPB operation still needs further investigation. 相似文献