Table of Contents:
  • An overview of the Department of Energy program for the recovery of energy and materials from urban solid waste / Donald K. Walter
  • Thermochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and feedstocks : an overview of R and D activities funded by the department of Energy / G.F. Schiefelbein, L.J. Sealock, Jr., and S. Ergun
  • Preliminary economic overview of large-scale thermal conversion systems using wood feedstocks / Stephen M. Kohan
  • Wood gasification : an old technology with new potential for the eighties / Jack J. Fritz, Abu Talib, and Judith J. Gordon
  • Mass burning of municipal solid waste worldwide / Philip R. Beltz
  • An evaluation of modular incinerators for energy recovery from solid wastes / David C. Bomberger and Jerry L. Jones
  • Energy recovery from wood residues by fluidized-bed combustion / J.W. Stallings and Mike Oswald
  • Fluid-bed combustion of solid wastes / Robert H. Vander Molen
  • Energy recovery from municipal solid waste and sewage sludge using multisolid fluidized-bed combustion technology / Wayne E. Ballantyne, William J. Huffman, Linda M. Curran, and Daniel H. Stewart
  • The preparation and properties of densified refuse-derived fuel
  • Harvey Alter and Jay A. Campbell / The Eco-Fuel II process : producing a storable, transportable fuel for co-combustion with oil / Floyd Hasselreiis
  • Small-scale source densification of Navy solid waste / Donald Brunner
  • Biomass densification energy requirements / T.B. Reed, G. Trezek, and L. Diaz
  • Densification systems for agricultural residues / Thomas R. Miles and Thomas R. Miles, Jr.
  • Replenishable organic energy for the 21st century / John L. Stafford and Andrew D. Livingston
  • Gasoline from solid wastes by a noncatalytic, thermal process / James P. Diebold
  • Fuel production from wastes using molten salts / R.L. Gay, K.M. Barclay, L.F. Grantham, and S.J. Yosim
  • Biomass gasification at the focus of the Odeillo (France) 1-MW (thermal) solar furnace / M.J. Antal, Jr., C. Royere, and A. Vialaron
  • Operation of a downdraft gasifier fueled with source-separated solid waste / S.A. Vigil, D.A. Bartley, R. Healy, and G. Tchobanoglous
  • The Enerco pyrolysis system / E.W. White and M.J. Thomson
  • Development of modular biomass gasification and combustion systems / James Fletcher and Richard Wright
  • Solid waste gasification and energy utilization / Franklin G. Rinker
  • Thermodynamics of pyrolysis and activation in the production of waste- or biomass-derived activated carbon / F. Michael Lewis and C.M. Ablow
  • Canada's biomass conversion technology R and D program / Ralph Overend
  • Pyrolysis of agricultural residues in a rotary kiln / R.H. Arsenault, M.A. Grandbois, E. Chornet, and G.E. Timbers
  • Fluidized-bed gasification of solid wastes and biomass : the CIL program / J.W. Black, K.G. Bircher, and K.A. Chisholm
  • The direct liquefaction of wood using nickel catalysts / D.G.B. Boocock, D. Mackay, and H. Franco
  • The role of catalysis in wood gasification / D.P.C. Fung and R. Graham
  • Wood gasification for gas and power generation / Arun Verma and G.A. Weisgerber
  • Basic principles of waste pyrolysis and review of european processes / A.G. Buekens and J.G. Schoeters
  • Pyrolysis of plastic waste and scrap tires using a fluidized-bed process / Walter Kaminsky and Hansjörg Sinn
  • Two-stage solid waste pyrolysis with drum reactor and gas converter / O. Tabasaran
  • The design of co-current moving-bed gasifiers fueled by biomass / Michiel J. Groeneveld and W.P.M. Van Swaaij
  • Pyrolytic recovery of raw materials from special wastes / Gerd Collin
  • Gasification of solid waste in accordance with the SFW-FUNK process / Harald Funk and Horst Hummelsiep
  • Overview of pyrolysis, thermal gasification, and liquefaction processes in Japan / M. Hiraoka
  • Pilot plant study on sewage sludge pyrolysis / T. Kasakura and M. Hiraoka
  • Gasification of solid waste in dual fluidized-bed reactors / M. Kagayama, M. Igarashi, M. Hasegawa, J. Fukuda, and D. Kunii
  • Disposal of municipal refuse by the two-bed pyrolysis system / N. Andoh, Y. Ishii, Y. Hirayama, and K. Ito
  • Pyrolysis process for scrap tires / Shigeo Kawakami, Kimio Inoue, Hideki Tanaka, and Tamiharu Sakai
  • PUROX system demonstration test on simulated Japanese refuse / T. Masuda and T.F. Fisher
  • Integrated system for solid waste disposal with energy recovery and volumetric reduction by a new pyrolysis furnace / Tatsuhiro Fujii
  • Development of a solid waste disposal system with pyrolysis and melting / M. Onozawa
  • The potential of biomass conversion in meeting the energy needs of the rural populations of developing countries : an overview / V. Mubayi, J. Lee, and R. Chatterjee
  • Power generation from biomass residues using the gasifier/dual-fuel engine technique / Andre A. Dennetiere, Francois Leorat, and George F. Bonnici
  • Studies on the practical application of producer gas from agricultural residues as supplementary fuel for diesel engines / Ibarra E. Cruz
  • Third World applications of pyrolysis of agricultural and forestry wastes / John W. Tatom, Hadley W. Wellborn, Filino Harahap, and Saswinadi Sasmojo
  • A preliminary analysis of the potential for developing nations to use biomass fuels in vehicle engines / J.L. Jones and A.K. Chatterjee
  • Social and economic aspects of the introduction of gasification technology in rural areas of developing countries (Tanzania) / Michiel J. Groeneveld and K.R. Westerterp.