Why isn refuse-derived fuel being combusted in existing waste-incineration plants? What is the difference between an RDF-based plant and a conventional waste-incineration plant?
RDF-based plants like Infraserv’s WTE power station are specifically designed to handle high-heat-value RDF. Unlike conventional incinerators, RDF-based plants only fire pre-sorted, high-quality, and high-calorific-value fractions of municipal and commercial waste. Conventional facilities, on the other hand, cannot combust fuels with high calorific values. In fact, they have to use a lot of extra inputs, including fossil fuels such as natural gas for coal, in order to combust the various types of waste. RDF-based plants, by contrast, are more efficient: Being designed specifically for high-heat-value RDF, they produce more electricity and steam from a given quantity of fuel. As a rule, waste incineration is ecologically more sound than landfilling and is required under the current environmental policies.
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