Abstract
The calorific value, moisture, ash, sulfur and chlorine contents were measured by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and the results analyzed to characterize refuse-derived fuel (RDF) as a function of the type of processing that the RDF had undergone. The RDF was separated from a municipal solid waste (MSW) sample from New Castle County, Delaware at the Bureau of Mines (BuM) pilot resource recovery plant in College Park, Maryland. The RDF streams were collected at seven points after various stages of processing through air classifiers and trommels. NBS characterized RDF as a function of the type of processing that the RDF had undergone. Air classifiers were very effective in separating the light components of RDF (i.e. paper and plastic films) from the heavier components of RDF. A trommel in the RDF separation scheme removes some of the undesirable characteristics of RDF, namely, the non-combustible, sulfur- and chlorine-containing components of RDF.
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