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Waste-to-Energy (WTE) technologies have been confronted with numerous and changing challenges over the last few decades. Various important factors have to be considered, not only the reduction of waste volume and mass and the destruction and capture of pollutants. Environmental concerns have demanded that flue gases are no longer a significant source of emissions, and that the waste, and also residues remaining after thermal treatment, are to be transformed into reusable products. Thermal treatment of waste using a grate-based system has gained acceptance as the preferred system for sustainable treatment of waste worldwide. The reason for this is that the energy content of the waste is utilized and that quality products and residues are produced. Nevertheless grate-based processes must also keep pace with international requirements and proposed alternative thermal treatment technologies by further innovative...

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Abbreviations

Reverse-acting grate:

Grate system, inclined at an angle of 26°, with rows of grate bars moving up and down against the downward flow of solids.

Horizontal grate:

Horizontal grate system with rows of grate bars moving in opposite directions alternated with stationary rows of grate bars.

SYNCOM:

SYNthetic COMbustion using oxygen-enriched underfire air on a reverse-acting grate.

IR camera:

Infrared camera recording the surface temperature across the width and the length of the bed on the grate for selected bandwidths from the roof of the combustion chamber.

MICC:

MARTIN Infrared Combustion Control for reverse-acting grate systems including fuzzy logic control, IR camera, operating mode concept, and operational data logging/visualization.

ACC:

Advanced Combustion Control for horizontal grate systems combining existing standard measurement information to generate the control loops.

LN:

Low NO x technology for significant reduction of NO x concentration downstream of the combustion system by primary measures.

SNCR:

Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction of NO x by injection of a reagent into the combustion chamber as a secondary measure without use of a catalytic converter.

T3:

Time–Temperature–Turbulence: concept ensuring an efficient post-combustion with good gas burnout.

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  1. Martin GmbH für Umwelt- und Energietechnik, Leopoldstraße 248, 80807, Munich, Germany

    Johannes J. E. Martin & Ralf Koralewska

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    Martin Kaltschmitt

  2. Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Kaltschmitt

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

    Nickolas J. Themelis

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    Lucien Y. Bronicki

  5. Royal Institute of Technology, Electric Power Systems, Stockholm, Sweden

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Martin, J.J.E., Koralewska, R. (2013). Martin Waste-to-Energy Technology. In: Kaltschmitt, M., Themelis, N.J., Bronicki, L.Y., Söder, L., Vega, L.A. (eds) Renewable Energy Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5820-3_397

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