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Hi Harmon and All,
MSW has a lot of heavy metals and other
nasty stuff. You'd be amazed at what people put down
their drains.
I worry even more that it is being used for
food plant fertilizer from the metals and germs.
jerry dycus
--- Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com> wrote:
> Paulo posted the other day something about MSW
> not being good
> gasification feedstock because "Pyrolysis of MSW has
> been tried but
> fails every time because commercial scale pyrolysis
> requires a
> homogeneous feedstock."
> I was talking with someone tonight about a
> related subject and he
> mentioned that his local wastewater treatment plant
> produces the MSW
> final product in what sounded like a very
> "homogeneous feedstock",
> essentially it comes out a dryer cylinder in a big
> continous wide sheet
> about 1/4-3/8" thick, looking like cardboard which
> then crumbles quite
> easily. They pay farmers to accept it as fertilizer.
> My ears certainly perked up at this -- am I
> mistaken in thinking
> that this sounds like an excellent feedstock? Is
> this a unique situation?
> Paulo also mentioned plants in Europe having
> problems with emissions
> from gasification of MSW? Are they not burning the
> gas to generate
> power? Is the gas produced from MSW that much
> different than woodgas?
>
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver
> CyberShamanix
> http://www.cybershamanix.com
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