NEGLECT TECHNOLOGY

URBAN WASTE AND CROCODILE TEARS

Mr. Umberto Ducati, from Trentino, one of the most brilliant students of the School Liceo Prati, is nowadays professor of Applied Physics at the Polytechnic of Milano, where he has studied Treatment of Urban Waste.

Recently, when asked on the matter, he said the following:

"My contribution was mainly on the pyrolysis method, but I also took care of other methods of waste disposal, and I can say that incineration is a technology known since millennia.

For ten years I have been talking about the pyrolysis technique and all are enthusiastic, from officials to councilors, but then when we get to the point, nothing happens. The waste heat treatment with Pyrolysis (in the absence of air) leaves a carbonaceous residue, similar to the charcoal used for barbecues.

It can work with or without separate waste collection.

It can work with glass, metals and aggregates, plastic and rubber, but they must initially be separated. The charcoal, which can be used for thermo heating, has a polluting power lower than that of wood whenever burned in stoves.

A gas is created which drags all pollutants and which can be easily removed by dry cleaning.

This type of gas is combustible and once washed it becomes environmentally identical to methane.

Moreover, by the previous separation of glass, metals or inerts before starting pyrolysis, we obtain a greater caloric power of the fuels which can be easily used to generate: "ELECTRICITY".

In Italy, we continue with the concept of incinerators, but the incinerator creates dioxin harmful for the environment, whereas pyrolysis does not create it.

In Sardinia, a pyrolysis plant treating hospital waste works without any problem, and it is well known that this waste is the most difficult to manage since it could create serious damage to the environment.

Siemens has built this system in Cornwall and it works very well.

With pyrolysis the temperature reaches 500 degrees, in the massification, the temperature reaches 2,200 degrees.

Here are the costs between an incinerator and pyrolysis.

An incinerator costs 250 billion, with high emissions of pollutants.

A pyrolysis plant costs 100 million with ZERO pollutant emissions

Now it is impossible to understand why politicians, municipalities, and Governments turn a blind eye to it.

Our hypothesis: in Italy, there is no interest and as usual it will happen that we will be surpassed by other nations even by those less emancipated than ours.

And we send our researchers abroad while here everything is dying. Among us, there are the usual opportunists in terms of earnings and the usual ignorant in terms of design evolution. Naples could have solved the problem of garbage for a long time if someone had thought of this solution.

Instead, we send to Germany or to the various Regions what we put in the bins which results in creating serious economic damages and pollution of the soils all over Italy.

HOW SAD !!!

Source: http://www.noicattaroweb.it/attualita/1116-la-pirolisi-e-meglio-dellinceneritore.html