Economic and Technological Prospects of Solid Waste Pyrolysis as an Alternative Energy Source

Search for alternative heat and electricity generation methods is extremely relevant today. It is made imperative not only by the need to address the impact the price and quality of hydrocarbons have on Russia's heating industry, but also by the society's dire need for ecofriendly recycling of production and household waste. This paper dwells upon the currently applicable technologies for recycling woodworking waste and solid household waste; each technology is analyzed in terms of its cons and limitations. Besides, the paper proposes the authors' method that utilizes a continuous smelting unit running on industrial gas that helps simplify and reduce the cost of unsorted garbage disposal.