facilities that produce clean, renewable energy through the combustion of municipal solid waste in specially designed power plants equipped with modern pollution control equipment to clean emissions.
A process of combustion of solid wastes that also generates electrical energy.
The practice of incinerating waste products to generate steam, heat, or electricity.
a process in which waste is brought to a facility and burned to generate steam or electricity.
Where waste is used as an energy feedstock, e.g. in the generation of electricity.
Incinerating waste products in order to generate steam, heat, or electricity.
This is a technology that uses refuse to generate electricity. In mass burn plants, untreated waste is burned to produce steam, which is used to drive a steam turbine generator. In refuse-derived fuel plants, refuse is pre-treated, partially to enhance its energy content prior to burning.
Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) in its strictest sense refers to any waste treatment that creates energy in the form of electricity or heat from a waste source that would have been disposed of in landfill, also called energy recovery. More advanced Waste-to-energy processes result in usable fuel commodity, such as hydrogen or ethanol, upon completion of process.