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Bottom Ash Treatment at the Site of Producing Plant for Reutilization

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Bottom ash is the solid residue remaining in the furnace after solid waste incineration, mainly consisting of unburnable materials. It is classified as industrial non-hazardous waste from the European Waste Catalogue. The final disposal or reuse of bottom ash is strictly linked to the potential release of constituent contaminants into the environment. In this study we considered the possibility of improving the quality of bottom ash, by accelerated carbonation, in order to make it suitable for disposal in landfills for inert waste or for the reuse in construction works. In particular, we evaluated the possibility of using the flue gases from waste incineration plant as an alternative source of carbon dioxide for use in the controlled accelerated carbonation of the bottom ash produced by the incineration plant itself. After a preliminarily laboratory investigation, necessary to define the gas/solid contact process parameters for the specific low content carbon dioxide stream, the process was evaluated from an economic point of view, estimating the specific cost for the treatment, which ranged from 16 to 20 € per t of processed bottom ash.

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  1. Niccolò Cusano University, via don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166, Rome, Italy

    L. Lombardi

  2. Industrial Engineering Department, University of Florence, via Santa Marta 3, 50139, Florence, Italy

    E. A. Carnevale

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Lombardi, L., Carnevale, E.A. Bottom Ash Treatment at the Site of Producing Plant for Reutilization. Waste Biomass Valor 7, 965–974 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-016-9551-z

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