Shredding is the common end-of-life treatment in Europe for dismantled car wrecks. It produces the socalled ASR (Automotive Shredded Residue), usually disposed of in landfill. This paper summarizes the outcome of a study carried out by Politecnico di Milano and LEAP with the support of Actelios SpA on the prospects of a technology based on sequential gasification and combustion of this specific waste stream. Its application to the treatment of ASR allows the recovery of large fractions of metals as non-oxidized, easily marketable secondary raw materials, the vitrification of most of the ash content and the production of power via a steam cycle. Results show that despite the unfavourable characteristics of ASR, the proposed technology can reach appealing energy performances. Three of four environmental impact indicators and the cumulative energy demand index are favourable, the main positive contributes being electricity production and metal recovery (mainly aluminium and copper). The only unfavourable indicator is the global warming index because, since most of the carbon in ASR comes from fossil sources, the carbon dioxide emissions at the stack of the thermal treatment plant are mainly non-renewable and, at the same time, the avoided biogas production from the alternative disposal route of landfilling is minor.


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    Title :

    Material and energy recovery from Automotive Shredded Residues (ASR) via sequential gasification and combustion


    Contributors:
    Vigano, F. (author) / Consonni, S. (author) / Grosso, M. (author) / Rigamonti, L. (author)

    Published in:

    Waste Management ; 30 , 1 ; 145-153


    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 8 Tabellen, 17 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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