Plasma gasification of the medical waste.
Covid-19
Hydrogen production
Medical waste
Plasma gasification
Sustainability
Waste-to-energy
Journal
International journal of hydrogen energy
ISSN: 0360-3199
Titre abrégé: Int J Hydrogen Energy
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100971333
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
18 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021
Historique:
received:
16
09
2020
revised:
05
12
2020
accepted:
10
12
2020
pubmed:
13
4
2021
medline:
13
4
2021
entrez:
12
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In terms of infection control in hospitals, especially the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in, it has revealed the necessity of proper disposal of medical waste. The increasing amount of medical waste with the pandemic is straining the capacity of incineration facilities or storage areas. Converting this waste to energy with gasification technologies instead of incineration is also important for sustainability. This study investigates the gasification characteristics of the medical waste in a novel updraft plasma gasifier with numerical simulations in the presence of the plasma reactions. Three different medical waste samples, chosen according to the carbon content and five different equivalence ratios (ER) ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 are considered in the simulations to compare the effects of different chemical compositions and waste feeding rates on hydrogen (H
Identifiants
pubmed: 33840883
doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.12.069
pii: S0360-3199(20)34604-8
pmc: PMC8021435
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
29108-29125Informations de copyright
© 2020 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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