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As a continuation of previous publications, the authors report results of analytical substantiation and evaluation of energy consumption for different versions of thermal processing, incineration, and evaporation of a wide range of toxic and radioactive wastes in a shaft incinerator with plasma air blast beneath a layer of a charge of filtering and combustible material such as wood sawdust, which absorbs up to 98–99% of the aerosols of waste gases and fixes the aerosols in the ash. The volume and specific energy consumption of the plasma blast and also conditions and possibilities for eliminating it due to the intrinsic heat release of the wastes and wood sawdust by means of this method are determined. The expediency of incineration and vitrification of the ash residue of radioactive wastes separately in a small‐volume melting crucible is shown, which allows a no less than twofold decrease in the total energy consumption as compared to the combined version of such processing.
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Kalitko, V.A., Mossé, A.L. Thermal Processing of Wastes in a Shaft Incinerator with a Plasma Blast and a Combustible Filtering Material: Analysis of the Energy Consumption and Variants. Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics 74, 119–129 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016638323337
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