Title :
Understanding technology: new concepts for air classification in waste processing and resource recovery
Author :
Peirce, J. Jeffrey
Author_Institution :
Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
Abstract :
It is noted that mechanical separation of municipal solid waste for resource recovery or waste-to-energy production, while viewed with great optimism in the early 1970s, has failed to receive widespread application in the 1990s. Using mechanical separation as a focus, it has been possible at Duke University to educate engineers to be more effective in addressing solid waste management problems in particular and problems in science, engineering, and technology in general
Keywords :
waste disposal; waste-to-energy power plants; Duke University; air classification; mechanical separation; municipal solid waste; resource recovery; waste processing; waste-to-energy production; Aluminum; Costs; Design engineering; Fuels; Glass; Job design; Plastics; Raw materials; Solids; Waste management;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1991. Twenty-First Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education in a New World Order.' Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
West Lafayette, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0222-2
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1991.187498
