Project: Variable fuel gasification for municipal solid waste recovery
Project No: 1.1.1.1/16/A/050
The aim of the project: To develop and validate gas cleaning system able to clean gas mixes in conditions of feedstock variability of solid recovered fuel applicable for a small-scale installations.
Project applicant: University of Latvia
Cooperation institution: CFCA
Description of the Project
Resource efficient recovery and regeneration of municipal solid waste gains importance today. Incineration technologies cannot deliver cost effective small scale solutions needed for distributed waste management systems. Gasification of solid recovered fuels can make a difference if coupled with efficient gas cleaning and energy recovery. Efficiency of the system lays at the integrated feedstock preparation, gasification process and gas cleaning for final product – carbonized solids, syngas and condensable liquids.
The challenge of the process is coping with variability of feedstock composition which leads to necessary adjustments for gasification process and stabile gas cleaning process. Project will develop and validate gas cleaning system in conditions of feedstock variability of solid recovered fuel applicable for a small-scale installations. In the process of gasification municipal solid waste recovered fraction will be
co-gasified with wood waste to deliver optimal process variables. Technology concentrates on closed loop syngas treatment, distillation of useful liquids and utilization of non-distillable liquids via the same gasification process.
Project outcomes will be recommendations for waste processing legislation in Latvia and industrial applications for end-products of different composition solid recovered fuels.