Coal comparable fuel pellets made from Municipal Solid Waste

[Jeroen]

Hi,

I am just new to this forum and am looking forward to spend more time here and read the interesting posts and articles here.

Perhaps this link is of any interest to this forum members:

Enext Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy bvba

From Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) a solid fuel pellet is made with handling and burning characteristics (LHV app. 23 MJ/kg) similar as high bituminous coal.
In The Netherlands this process and resulting product was granted a certificate and is labeled as Coal Comparable Fuel.

This is a very interesting concept since this solid fuel pellet can be used in modern coal fired electricity plants unlike older existing technologies which produce Refuse Derived Fuels (RDF).

Composition of these solid fuel pellets is a mixture of dry organic waste (like paper, card-box, wood, cellulose, rubber, fabrics, etc) and plastics.

Depending on the type of MSW, the biogenic part of these pellets will be around 60%, and thus has a lower C02 emission than coal...

No need to built expensive Waste Incinerators, but existing modern coal fired electricity plants can be used, in which these solid fuel pellets can be burned instead of coal.

Greetz Jeroen

[rileydad48]

Hi,

I am just new to this forum and am looking forward to spend more time here and read the interesting posts and articles here.

Perhaps this link is of any interest to this forum members:

Enext Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy bvba

From Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) a solid fuel pellet is made with handling and burning characteristics (LHV app. 23 MJ/kg) similar as high bituminous coal.
In The Netherlands this process and resulting product was granted a certificate and is labeled as Coal Comparable Fuel.

This is a very interesting concept since this solid fuel pellet can be used in modern coal fired electricity plants unlike older existing technologies which produce Refuse Derived Fuels (RDF).

Composition of these solid fuel pellets is a mixture of dry organic waste (like paper, card-box, wood, cellulose, rubber, fabrics, etc) and plastics.

Depending on the type of MSW, the biogenic part of these pellets will be around 60%, and thus has a lower C02 emission than coal...

No need to built expensive Waste Incinerators, but existing modern coal fired electricity plants can be used, in which these solid fuel pellets can be burned instead of coal.

Greetz Jeroen

Hi and welcome to the forum, I think it's a great place to find just about anything. We can always use new "blood" and feel free to bring your idea's to light. Haven't seen this before, not much information on their wed sight
though. Would like to know some more on the CO2 and other emissions in comparasion to other forms of combustion sources as well as the burn rate and BTU output. Wonder if it could be used in a wood pellet or corn stove.

Thanks again and "welcome.

Paul

[Jeroen]

Hi Paul,

thanks for the welcome!

Depending on the composition of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), the biogenic part of the Enext fuel pellets could be around 60%.

Thus, by avoiding the use of coal, an significant amount of CO2 emission reduction could be achieved.

Besides that, the Carbon content of these pellets is about 20% less compared to coal giving a direct lower C02 emission.
The Carbon content of Enext Fuel is app. 52% compared to the Carbon content of coal which lays in the range of 67-70%.

As mentioned in my earlier post, in The Netherlands this process and resulting Enext Fuel pellet was granted a certificate in early 2009 and is labelled as Coal Comparable Fuel (CCF).

That means, these solid fuel pellets have approximately the same burn rate and BTU output as high volatile bituminous coal as used in The Netherlands.

Enext Fuel is mainly targeted to be used in coal fired electricity Power Plants.

When coal can be fired in wood pellet or corn stoves, the Enext fuel pellets certainly can as well.

In burning tests in which Enext Fuel was compared to samples of high volatile bituminous coal as used in The Netherlands, it was shown that the carbon conversion is about the same or slightly higher than that of high volatile bituminous coal.

The ash content of Enext Fuel is app. 18% and the grindability of the Enext Fuel is comparable to that of wood pellets.

The high volatile matter compared to coal, app. 2 times as high, explains the high burning conversion and low Loss of Ignition (LOI) of Enext Fuel.

Due to the low moisture level of Enext Fuel the Calorific Value is app. 23 MJ/kg.

The Sulphur (S) content of the Enext Fuel is lower than that of coal, Nitrogen (N) and Chlorine (CL) contents of Enext Fuel are about the same as coal and Fluor (F) is significant lower than that of coal as used in these tests.

I hope this gave some more insights and if anyone has any questions, please let me know.

Have a great sunday,

Jeroen

[simon_k2l]

Refuse Derived Fuels

Refuse derived fuels and solid recovered fuels are an interesting subject, and its something that more money should be invested into.

If you consider that each year in England and Wales we produce 106 million tonnes of commercial, industrial and household waste. Investing more money into producing energy from waste is paramount in the battle against landfill and protecting our environment for years to come.

I work for a company call The Waste Exchange who specialise in turning waste into fuels for manufacturing and renewable energy.

When we think that RDF's and SRF's can be used in a variety of ways to produce electricity it seems unthinkable that more time and resources arent being ploughed into the energy from waste industry as a sustainable energy alternative.

If you want more info on The Waste Exchange just click on our link below...

The Waste Exchange | Refuse Derived Fuel | Solid Recovered Fuel