title: Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes: Economic, Technical, and Renewable Comparisons
author:  Gary C. Young 
description: "This work details how currently generated municipal solid waste,as well as past wastes residing in landfills, can be processed intoenergy with plasma arc gasification technology. The book is writtenfor wide audience, including engineers, academics, and policymakers in public and private sectors." (<i>Book News</i>, September2010)<br /><br />
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  J.C. Jones
  Thermal Processing of Waste
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  Thermal Processing of Waste
  1st edition
  © 2014 J.C. Jones & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-7681-590-5
  Dedicated to: 
  Professor N.N. Greenwood FRS
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  Thermal Processing of Waste
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  Contents
  Contents
   
  Preface 
  9
  1 
  Municipal solid waste 
  Part I: Nature and amounts 
  11
  1.1 
  Introduction 
  11
  1.2 
  Composition 
  13
  1.3 
  Calorific values 
  13
  1.4 
  Constituents of MSW other than household waste 
  15
  1.5 
  Carbon neutrality or otherwise of MSW as a fuel 
  16
  1.6 
  Trade wastes 
  16
  1.7 
  Concluding remarks 
  17
  1.8 
  References 
  17
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