Abstract
A feasibility study has been conducted to determine whether thermal plasma with steam can be used for the treatment of carbonaceous wastes such as the carbide of the hazardous wastes. The gasification of carbonaceous wastes has been especially studied to reduce their weight and the volume and to produce the synthetic gas (H 2+CO). The gasification applied to this study is often called “water gas reaction (C+H 2O→CO+H 2)”. In this study the thermal plasma generated by the hybrid plasma system was adopted as a heat source, where steam was injected to react with carbide. Charcoal was used as a test piece instead of carbonaceous wastes. Experiments of treating charcoal were conducted by three types of thermal plasma. The result showed that the treatment of thermal plasma with steam reduced the weight of charcoal and produced hydrogen from charcoal. The thermal plasma with steam will be an attractive heat source to dispose of carbonaceous wastes.
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