Industrialized
regions of the world are actively polluting the
environment. In this research, we consider one of the developed industrial
regions, Siberia (Russia), as an example. The paper presents typical
volumes of annually stored waste, in particular, waste of oil production
and a refinery (76 800 tons), liquid and watered waste of the
municipal sector (167 875 tons), and food waste (5906 tons).
The parameters of ignition and combustion of such wastes are studied
in the compositions of coal–water slurry fuels with petrochemicals.
The experimental results demonstrate that most of the wastes in the
industrial region under study have high potential (according to environmental,
economic, and energy criteria) as additives to fuels. In particular,
a comprehensive comparative analysis shows that the ignition delay
time for fuel slurries with waste can be reduced by 10–60%;
the minimum ignition temperature, by 10–45 °C; and concentrations
of NO
x
and SO2 emissions, by
5–50%. The combustion heat of composite fuels can be increased
by 5–20% when using admixtures from industrial waste.