PPS 11 Planning and Waste Management·Page 35·7.18
Emerging Thermal Treatment Technologies
Gasification, pyrolysis, and anaerobic digestion are emerging thermal treatment technologies that produce energy from organic waste treatment in enclosed plants, limiting atmospheric emissions and potentially playing a significant future role in waste management.
Other emerging thermal treatment technologies include gasification and pyrolysis. Anaerobic digestion is a further technology which produces energy from the treatment of organic wastes. These technologies involve processes carried out in enclosed plant which limit emissions to the atmosphere. Some of these processes could therefore play a more significant future role in waste management.
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