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Basic Environmental Engineering of Chicago. They have each been supplying <br />incineration systems for MSVV and other wastes for over 25years. <br />Other U.G. firms, such as Energy Answers of Albany, NY, and Covanta Energy of <br />Fairfield, N], are marketing project development and management services for VVTE <br />modular facilities. <br />3~3 Refuse-derived Fuel/Dedicated Boller <br />As with mass-burn systems, there have not been any new Refuse-derived Fuel (RDF) <br />systems constructed in the United States in the past decade. For most of the 12 RDF <br />VVTE facilities currently in operation, Excel, Veo|ia and Covanto Energy are the <br />operating contractors. The front-end processing utilizes a variety of unit processes <br />depending upon the boiler requirements and the design philosophy. The unit process <br />equipment, shredders, magnetic separators, screens, conveyors, etc', are all <br />standard items available from a variety of manufacturers. <br />Equipment used in this technology is adapted from equipment provided in coal-fired <br />electricity generation plants, and there are many established system and equipment <br />suppliers marketing in the U.S., such as Foster Wheeler, Riley, Babcock and Wilcox, <br />Detroit Stoker, ABB and VVtirtsi|i�' <br />3.4 RDF/Fluldized Bed <br />While there are several RDF/fluid bed systems operating in Europe (particularly in <br />Scandinavia, where a number of fluid bed incinerator manufacturers are located), <br />there is only one such facility in operation in the United States, located in French <br />Island, VVI' It is owned and operated by Excel Energy of Minneapolis. The <br />equipment was supplied by Energy Products of Idaho in Coeur d'Alene, the only U.S. <br />firm currently manufacturing these furnaces for RDFfiring. <br />3.5 Gasification <br />Japan currently has seven plants operating with gasification technology. At least two <br />of these facilities fire MSVV, with the largest firing up to 700 TPC) of MSVV. In Europe <br />and Asia, approximately 2Osyngasgasification facilities are operating on MSVV. Most <br />of these facilities are relatively arna||, processing less than 10 TPD with none <br />designed to process more than 70 TP[}' <br />3.6 Pyrolysis <br />With / M5VV io haat�d in an oxygen-starved environment to produce a fuel <br />gas that i then incinerated to generate steam bnd/or electricity. In the 1970s, a <br />number of pyrolysis facilities were constructed using »4SVV as a feedstock. Several <br />were built with partial funding provided by U.B. EPA. The largest of these was the <br />Monsanto facility in Baltimore, MD, which had a capacity of 1,000 TPC>' This facility <br />did not meet its environmental requirements due to operational scale-up problems <br />and was born down. Other smaller, 100 to 200 7-PD, MGVV pyrolysis facilities were <br />built at that time by Union Carbide, AnooTorrax, and Occidental Petroleum. These <br />facilities were recipients of U.S. EPA grant funds and were dosed for operational and <br />financial reasons. Currently, there are no full-scale pyrolysis systems in connrnenja| <br />operation on MSVV in the United States. A pilot demonstration system has been <br />GBB/CO8027-01 6 August 15, 2008 <br />