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WTE: Energy Contained in Solid Wastes

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Glossary

APC:

Air pollution control system of a plant

BAT:

Best available technology (BAT). The most effective method for achieving a high level of protection for the environment, developed on a scale that allows implementation under technically and economically viable conditions (in the USA, called maximum achievable control technology: MACT)

BREF:

Reference document on the best available techniques

ENE:

Energy equivalence factor

MSWI:

MSW incineration, most commonly called waste to energy, or WTE

MSW:

Municipal solid waste; waste from households as well as commercial, industrial, and institutional waste that, by its nature and composition, is similar to waste from households. This includes, e.g., bulky waste, residual waste after recycling operations

RDF:

Refuse-derived fuel. The categories of waste that may be treated in a WTE plant are listed in the permit by the competent authority

R1:

Energy efficiency factor determines whether a WTE plant can be classified as a recovery...

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  1. Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP), Bamberg, Germany

    Dieter O. Reimann

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  1. Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Nickolas J. Themelis

  2. Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas

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  1. Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Athanasios C. Bourtsalas

  2. Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, USA

    Nickolas Themelis

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Reimann, D.O. (2019). WTE: Energy Contained in Solid Wastes. In: Themelis, N., Bourtsalas, A. (eds) Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7850-2_866

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