Interaction between pollutants produced in sewage sludge combustion and cement raw material
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Published on: February 21, 2017
Araceli Gálvez1, Juan A Conesa, Ignacio Martín-Gullón
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain. ara.galvez@ua.es
Abstract:
Nowadays the use of waste as secondary fuel in clinker kilns is an extensive practice, but the interaction between cement raw material (CRM) and the combustion gases of the fuels has not been extensively studied. Because of that, in this work the effect of the interaction of exhaust from the combustion of sewage sludge and CRM has been studied in a laboratory furnace. The experiments were performed at 300 degrees C, close to the temperature at the cyclones in a cement industry. The behavior of volatile compounds, polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAH) and polychloro dibenzo-p-dioxin and polychloro dibenzofurans (PCCD/F) were analysed in the presence or absence of CRM. The results obtained show that the presence of CRM at the outlet of the combustion gases is beneficial for the decrease of pollutant emissions.
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