LOW POLLUTANT WASTE INCINERATION - A SYSTEMS-APPROACH TO EMISSIONS AND RESIDUES

Passionate public discussions of the environmental acceptability of wa ste incineration reflect not only the growing awareness of ecological problems but also a certain opposition to large scale technical proces ses. This paper attempts to define requirements for low pollutant wast e incineration and to draft technical measures suitable to meet those high standards. Low pollutant waste incineration can only be achieved if the applied technologies are aimed at both the reduction of stack e missions and the quality of the combustion and gas cleaning residues. Appropriate technical processes have been developed. Their assembly in to a state of the art system demands great care in evaluating and bala ncing such different aspects as technical performance, ecological acce ptability and expense.