Thermal treatment
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Thermal treatment is a term given to any waste treatment technology that involves high temperatures in the processing of the waste feedstock. This commonly, although not exclusively involves the combustion of waste materials.
Systems that are generally considered to be thermal treatment include:
- Cement kiln
- Gasification
- Incineration
- Mechanical heat treatment
- Pyrolysis
- Thermal deploymerisation
- Waste autoclaves
[edit] See also
- Anaerobic digestion
- List of solid waste treatment technologies
- Mechanical biological treatment
- Waste-to-energy
- Gasification
- gasifier
- pyrolysis
