On the Impact of Non‐CHO Elements on Fuel Properties in Waste Incineration

Abstract

Incineration is and will remain a proven technology for the safe and sustainable destruction of environmentally hazardous substances. The behavior of non‐CHO elements during combustion plays an important role in the design of incinerators for hazardous waste since they drive the selection and design of the process sequence and of the single equipment. This contribution presents an overview on impacts of the presence of non‐CHO compounds in waste incinerators and provides correlations to estimate the product distribution of sulfur‐ and halogen‐containing compounds as well as for the important fuel properties oxygen demand and heat of combustion of material containing non‐CHO elements.