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Basic Environmental Engineering of Chicago. They have each been ouook/ng incineration systems for M5VV and other wastes for over Z5years. Other U.S' firms, such as Energy Answers of Albany, NY' and Covanta Energy of Fairfield, N], are marketing project development and management services for VVTE modular facilities. 3~3 Refuse-derived Fuel/Dedicated Boller As with mass-burn systems, there have not been any new Refuse-derived Fuel (RDF) systems constructed in the United States in the past decade. For most ofthe 12 RDF \NTE facilities currently in operation, Excel, Veo|ia and Covanto Energy are the operating contractors. The front-end processing utilizes variety of unit processes depending upon the boiler requirements and the design philosophy. The unit process equipment, shredders, magnetic separators, screens, conveyors, etc., are all standard items available from a variety of manufacturers. Equiprnent used in this technology is adapted from equipment provided in coal-fired electricity generation plants, and there are many established system and equipment suppliers marketing in the U.S., such as Foster Wheeler, Riley, Babcock and Wilcox, Detroit Stoker, ABG and VV,�rtsi|�i. While there are several RDF/#uid bed systems operating in Europe (particularly in Scandinavia, where a number of fluid bad incinerator manufacturers are located), thane is only one such facility in operation in the United States, located in Fuandl Island, VVI' It is owned and operated by Excel Energy of Minneapolis. The equipment was supplied by Energy Products of Idaho in Coeur d'Alene, the only U.S. firm currently manufacturing these furnaces for ROFfiring. 3.5 Gasification Japan currently has seven plants operating with gasification technology. At least two of these facilities fire MBVV, with the largest firing up to 700 TPD of y4GVV' In Europe and Asia, approximately 2Osyngasgasification facilities are operating on M5VV' Most of these facilities are relatively arna||, processing less than 10 TPD with none designed to process more than 7OTPD. 3~6 Pyrolysis With pyrolysis, MBVV is heated in an oxygen-starved environment to produce a fuel gas that hsthen incinerated to generate steam and/or electricity. In the 1970e, a number of pyrolysis facilities were constructed using MBVV as a feedstock. Several were built with partial funding provided by U.S. EPA. The largest of these was the Monsanto facility in Baltimore, MD, which had a capacity of 1,000 -[PD. This facility did not rnaat its environmental requirements due to operational scale-up problems and was torn down. Other smaller, 100 to 200 TPD, MSVV pyrolysis facilities were built at that time by Union Carbide, AncoTorrax, and Occidental Petroleum. These facilities were recipients of U.S. EPA grant funds and were closed for operational and financial reasons. Currently, there are no full-scale pyrolysis systems in commercial operation on MSVV in the United States. A pilot dernonstnation system has been GBB/C08027-01 6 August 15, 2008