THERMAL PROCESSING OF WASTES IN A SHAFT INCINERATOR WITH
A PLASMA BLAST AND A COMBUSTIBLE FILTERING MATERIAL: 
ANALYSIS OF THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND VARIANTS
V. A. Kalitko and A. L. Mosse  

UDC 621.039.7:533

As a continuation of previous publications, the authors 
report results of analytical substantiation and evaluation of energy 
consumption for different versions of thermal processing, incineration, 
and evaporation of a wide range of toxic and radioactive wastes in 
a shaft incinerator with plasma air blast beneath a layer of a charge 
of filtering and combustible material such as wood sawdust, which 
absorbs up to 98-99% of the aerosols of waste gases and fixes 
the aerosols in the ash. The volume and specific energy consumption 
of the plasma blast and also conditions and possibilities for eliminating 
it due to the intrinsic heat release of the wastes and wood sawdust 
by means of this method are determined. The expediency of incineration 
and vitrification of the ash residue of radioactive wastes separately 
in a small-volume melting crucible is shown, which allows a no less 
than twofold decrease in the total energy consumption as compared 
to the combined version of such processing.

Academic Scientific Complex "A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass 
Transfer Institute," National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, 
No. 1, pp. 84-91, January-February, 2001. Original article 
submitted June 23, 2000.

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