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WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 404-412Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X12440480
Keywords
Solid recovered fuels; cement industry; hazardous waste; alternative fuels; waste incineration; waste preconditioning; co-incineration; positive list
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Cements with good technical properties have been produced in Europe since the nineteenth century and are now worldwide standardized high-quality mass products with enormous production numbers. The basic component for cement is the so-called clinker which is produced mainly from raw meal (limestone plus clay plus sands) in a rotary kiln with preheater and progressively with integrated calciner, at temperatures up to 1450 AC. This process requires large amounts of fossil fuels and is CO2-intensive. But most CO2 is released by lime decomposition during the burning process. In the 1980s the use of alternative fuels began - firstly in the form of used oil and waste tyres and then increasingly by pre-conditioned materials from commercial waste and from high calorific industrial waste (i.e. solid recovered fuel (SRF)) - as well as organic hazardous waste materials such as solvents, pre-conditioned with sawdust. Therefore the cement industry is more and more a competitor in the waste-to-energy market - be it for municipal waste or for hazardous waste, especially concerning waste incineration, but also for other co-incineration plants. There are still no binding EU rules identifying which types of SRF or hazardous waste could be incinerated in cement kilns, but there are some well-made country-specific 'positive lists', for example in Switzerland and Austria. Thus, for proper planning in the cement industry as well as in the waste management field, waste disposal routes should be considered properly, in order to avoid surplus capacities on one side and shortage on the other
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