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Destruction of Hazardous Medical Waste by Plasma Pyrolysis Process

Authors:
[ Davood Hassanpour ] - Electrostatics Dep., East-Azerbaijan Eng. Res. Cen., Ins. of Eng. Res. of Agriculture –Jahad Ministry
[ Shafee ] -
[ Narmani ] -
[ Chitsaz ] -

Abstract:

In this paper, destruction of hazardous medical wastes using plasma pyrolysis process is investigated. This system provide a revolutionary way of dealing with two very pressing problems faced by today's society: waste treatment and disposal, and clean sources of energy. Technologists believe the pyrolysis system is superior to competing methods of waste treatment and disposal because of its economic and environmental advantages and its potential to be used across a wide variety of applications, including distributed power production. These advantages provide lower waste processing costs for the customer, optional on-site power generation, greater utilization of waste materials for commercial products, valuable secondary revenue streams from these products, environmentally friendly operations and minimized future liability for the waste. These systems are highly effective in processing a wide variety of waste streams, including hazardous, medical, radioactive, industrial, and municipal wastes. The systems are also highly capable of creating commercially valuable products from waste in the form of energy (ultra-clean power generation using the hydrogen-rich gas) and useful solid by-products (roofing tiles, insulating panels, sand-blasting media and other construction-related products). The environmental attractiveness of the pyrolysis system results from nearly total destruction of organic materials (high volume and weight reduction) and very low emission of hazardous air pollutants.

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