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    A New Process for the Drying and Gasification of Sewage Sludge

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    Gasification can completely sterilize sewage sludge while circumventing many of the problems commonly encountered with incineration.

    - Brendan McAuley, Julie Kunkel and Stanley E. Manahan

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    Stanley E. Manahan is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Brendan McAuley and Julie Kunkel are students at the University of Missouri.

    References: REFERENCES 1. Garcia-Bacaicoa, Pedro, Rafael Bilbao, and Cristina Uson, “Sewage Sludge Gasification: First Studies,” Proceedings of the Second Biomass Conference: Energy, Environment, and Agricultural Industry, pp. 685–694, 1995. 2. Whiting, Kevin J., “Gasification of Sewage Sludge—A Sustainable Option,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Incineration and Thermal Treatment Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA, pp. 153–156 (1997). 3. Jaeger, M. and M. Mayer, “The Noell Conversion Process—A Gasification Process for the Pollutant-Free Disposal of Sewage Sludge and the Recovery of Energy and Materials,” Water Science and Technology, 41, pp. 37–44 (2000). 4. Stanley E. Manahan and David W. Larsen, “Proceso ‘ChemChar’ para la Gasificació n de Residuos Peligrosos y Mezclas de Residuos Radioactivos y Peligrosos,” Tecnologia Ciencia Educacion, 14, pp. 51–58 (1999). 5. Laura L. Kinner, Audrey McGowin, Stanley E. Manahan, David W. Larsen, “Reverse-Burn Gasification for Treatment of Hazardous Wastes: Contaminated Soil, Mixed Wastes, and Spent Activated Carbon Regeneration,” Environmental Science and Technology, 27, pp. 482–488 (1993). 6. Laura L. Kinner, David W. Larsen and Stanley E. Manahan, “Gasification of Waste-Contaminated Soil by the ChemChar Process,” Journal of Environmental Science and Health, A28, pp. 697–727 (1993) . 7. R. Scott Martin, Stanley E. Manahan, J. Steven Morris, and David W Larsen, “The Destruction of Chemical Warfare Surrogates and Subsequent Phosphorus Distribution during Gasification,” Journal of Environmental Science and Health. 8. “The Destruction of Chlorofluorocarbons during ChemChar Gasification,” R. Scott Martin, Kenneth E. Garrison, Stanley E. Manahan, J. Steven Morris, and David W Larsen, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, A34(4), pp. 767–793 (1999). 9. Bradley D. Medcalf, David W Larsen, and Stanley E. Manahan, “Gasification as an Alternative Method for the Destruction of Sulfur Containing Waste (ChemChar Process,” Waste Management, 18, pp. 197–201 (1998). 10. Bradley D. Medcalf, David W Larsen, and Stanley E. Manahan, “Fate of Nitrogen in Nitrogen-Containing Compounds during Cocurrent Flow Gasification (ChemChar Process)” Environmental Science and Technology , 31, January 1997, pp. 194–197. 11. James W. Colbert, R. Scott Martin, Stanley E. Manahan, and J. Steven Morris, “The Study of the Distribution of Arsenic, Mercury, Uranium, Thorium, Neptunium, and Protactinium Under the ChemChar Gasification Process Using Radioactive Tracers,” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 230 (1998) pp. 61–70.

    Source: Water Engineering & Management   May 2001   Volume: 148 Number: 5
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