- Dehydration and RDF Production of Organic Wastes with Pressurized Hydrothermal Treatment Process
- Park, Se-Joon ; Choi, Young-Chan ; Choi, In-Kyu ;
- Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society, volume 20, issue 5, 2009, Pages 439~446
Abstract
This paper investigates the dehydration and RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) production of organic wastes, livestock manure and sewerage sludge with pressurized hydrothermal treatment process. The renewable technology for the organic wastes must involve short treatment time required, reusable energy source, anti-odor and viruses, low cost for the treatment, and well-fertilization. The pressurized hydrothermal treatment process promotes to evaporate moisture in the waste after being shortly treated in a reactor, which uses steam and heat supplied by an external boiler. By the pressurized steam, the cell walls of the waste break and effectively release the internal moisture. Then, the dried waste can be mixed with waste vinyls to produce RDF with a higher heating value as high as 6,700 kcal/kg.