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The World's First Metallurgical Furnace For Man-made Waste Recycling Launched in Russia - Seite 2

Takhir Galiullin, the Chairman of "Russian Steel": 

"This technology can be replicated. The developers consider it a third-generation technology, that is already more perfect and efficient than the previous ones. There is future for such a plant, because there is something to recycle. There are greasy ocarinas, slag, dust, gas cleaning, i.e. by-products in metallurgy, and the processing always relevant. It is necessary to build it in the regions of the presence of large metallurgy, so that logistics is less expensive". 

As noted by the developer of the furnace Gennadiy Podgorodetskiy, the technology is unique - no one in the world has done anything like this yet. The prototype attracted business, representatives of metallurgical and chemical companies such as Severstal, EuroChem and Mechel gathered for the trial launch.

But if the recycling of industrial waste seems economically attractive, what should be done with conventional landfills? Despite the fact that the created furnace is capable of processing not sorted household garbage, "aggravated" by the waste of the first class of danger, such as fluorescent lamps, experts note that the problem should be solved at the state level.

Natalya Belyaeva, member of the Expert Council for Industry of the Russian Federation:  

"There is not much economic expediency in the processing of municipal solid waste. And in order to interest those who should and can use this plant for MSW processing, state support measures should be considered."

The most important advantage of the developed technology is low specific energy costs: 20-30% lower than the best world analogues. From this point of view, it can qualify for the European nomination BAT (Best Available Techniques - the best existing technologies). In General, the technology is initially environmentally oriented. The amount of emissions in the furnace is significantly lower than that of the world's best analogues, in addition, it provides for the suppression of the formation of particularly dangerous ecotoxicants.

Gennadiy Podgorodetskiy, the developer: 

"At the request of the customer, the slag composition can be selected for further processing into slag stone products, thermal insulation slag, serve as the basis for the production of cement clinker, etc. Due to the unique design of the unit, energy costs can be brought to 500 kg of coal and 500 nm^[3] of oxygen per 1 ton of cast iron. As a result, we recycle industry waste, get cast iron, commercial slag and non-ferrous metal concentrate. There is no waste in our technology. The pilot sample is also designed to test the technology of waste-free gasification of numerous carbon-containing waste, including solid domestic waste."