Re: Terms used in incineration

["Jon Campbell" <jon@cqs.com>]

add to that: pyrolysis, gas pyrolysis, plasma, plasma torch, pelletized
waste fuel, baghouse filter, "water wall" combustor (just a fancy, polluting
way of protecting the walls of the combustion chamber), electrostatic
precipitator (where a lot of dioxin is believed to form)...

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Ewall <catalyst@envirolink.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Terms used in incineration


> >We are working on an anti incineration campaign guide for NGO's. A
chapter
> >of this guide will be on terms used in incineration and their simple
> >explaination.
>
> Don't forget to include all of the new fancy euphemisms for various forms
> of incineration, including:
>
> fluidized bed combustor / fluidized bed reactor
> regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO)
> thermal desorption unit
> carbon regeneration
> biomass
> co-generation
> recycling into energy
> waste-to-energy
> trash-to-steam
> soil recycling (this implies rotory kiln cookers with incinerator
afterburners)
>
> Mike Ewall
> Pennsylvania Environmental Network
> http://www.penweb.org
>