RE: Innovative waste processing technologies - Thermolysis

["Emmanuel de Broux" <EMM_DE_BROUX@msn.com>]

Andy Bowman wrote :
With regard to the above Emmanuel de Broux  recommended thermolysis as an
alternative process. Is this process up and running on a commercial scale
anywhere.

Answer :
We know the fourth generation of thermolysis ovens. There is one pilot plant 
at Dreux near Paris, one in Italy and 7 suppliers in Germany, a country 
reported to have frozen the construction of 10 MSW incinerators. I have the 
text of a conference given in French by Professor André Fontana on that 
subject on May 3, 1966 here in Belgium. The text is a pretty good review of 
what is done today in terms of thermolysis in Europe, with the exception of 
the ESR process sold by US-born Paul Olivier. Ask me a copy, while giving your 
snail mail address, if it can help.

Thermolysis is totally unheard of in the States, judging by the very small 
number of reactions to previous messages on the subject.

ESR claims to have landed three orders from South-East Asia, that is one MSW 
thermolysis plant for Adelaide, Australia, another for Singapore to treat 
sewer waste, and yet another from Sarawak State in Borneo to convert wood 
waste - sawdust for instance - into activated carbon. Plant capacities are 
unknown. Countries around the Pacific Ocean are much more prone to accept 
thermolysis more than incineration to treat their MSW, I have heard.

I am not myself selling thermolysis in any way - I am a retired 61-y old ITT 
executive. I just know that MSW incinerators disperse so much 
organohalogenated compounds like dioxins, furans, PCBs in the atmosphere that 
they strongly contribute to keep setting up the next plight for Humanity : 
hormonal disruption, thanks to that sort of pollutants, plus depletion of the 
upper layer of ozone acting as our UV shield. That is enough to motivate me to 
let thermolysis known to people who should know about it.

With kind regards from Belgium about to get too much ozone in the lower layer 
of its atmosphere ! Nitrogen dioxides also produced by MSW incinerators by the 
tonne are precursors of ozone.