Onondaga County: Waste-to-Energy: How it works, an animated video by Covanta Energy

How Waste-to-Energy Facilities work, an animated explanation

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Education

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• Waste-to-Energy process
• WTE
• Onondaga County

[OCRRA]

Glad you found this video helpful (and you liked the music)! We think Covanta did a great job creating a video that explains the renewable, Waste-to-Energy process!

[OCRRA]

giugnhgbvinierngvb89: We are unfamiliar with e-clave systems, but would be happy to further respond if you could provide more specific details.

[OCRRA]

Waste-to-energy is a process which uses trash as a fuel for power generation. Similar to other power plants (just using trash rather than other fuels like coal, oil, or natural gas), the fuel is burned in a combustion chamber at extremely high temperatures (1800 – 2000 degrees F) to heat tubes of water in the boiler walls. The water is heated until it turns into steam, which is then used to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.

[OCRRA]

Waste-to-energy is a process which uses trash as a fuel for power generation. Similar to other power plants (just using trash rather than other fuels like coal, oil, or natural gas), the fuel is burned in a combustion chamber at extremely high temperatures (1800 – 2000 F) to heat tubes of water in the boiler walls. The water is heated until it turns into steam, which is then used to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.

[OCRRA]

To address your immediate questions, a reply for OCRRA's engineer follows:

Incinerators refer to the antiquated technology in which trash is burned at low temperatures without any air pollution control equipment. In the past, incinerators were used to reduce the volume of the trash. Incinerators did not generate electricity. Due to rigorous government regulations on emissions, incinerators no longer exist in the United States.

[OCRRA]

This video, while produced by Covanta Energy was posted by OCRRA - an entity that partners with Covanta to run our local Waste-to-Energy facility. As you can imagine, defining complex engineering techniques is something that cannot be easily done in a short video. If you have questions, we encourage you to contact us or visit OCRRA.org where we explain in more detail how the process works and also post annual Waste-to-Energy reports that include our annual testing results-both state and federal.

[Unibomber2u]

The 300 ft. stack doesn't do much for convincing NIMBY's and the general population your mass burn incineration project isn't billowing out cancer causing carcinagens such as dioxins and furans. I wouldn't trust my health a out of town incineration company will keep up with the maintenance to ensure this expensive scrubber and pollution control devices are working properly

[lettung]

9 - Comment on Youtube is my favorite transgression (Oscar Wilde). LoL

[Jbbeall2]

Just started researching Covanta. Came across this video. Very helpful, but more importantly the music is excellent. Solid bass groove. And the little keyboard riffs. Hat's off the the composer!

[giugnhgbvinierngvb89]

does this plant use e-clave system?