Waste to energy: air pollutant emissions from the steam boilers using recycled waste wood

• Main Authors: Tsai, Jiun Horng, Lin, Kuo Hsiung, How, Vivien, Deng, Yu An, Chiang, Hung Lung
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 2021
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/93567/1/Waste%20to%20energy.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/93567/; https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-21-11-oa-0301

In Taiwan, combustible wood mostly comes from waste pallets and scrap packaging materials discarded by factories, which produced a total of 278,067 tons of waste wood in 2019. In this study, the heat value of waste wood was 18.3 ± 1.07 MJ kg–1. The measured volatile fraction was 76.5 ± 7.34%, the fi...