1st Edition

Materials Recovery from Municipal Waste Unit Operations in Practice

By Harvey Alter Copyright 1983
    280 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Based upon the author's years of firsthand experience, this vital reference combines-in a single volume-concise coverage of the principles underlying resource recovery systems and invaluable analyses of operating data from experimental-, pilot-, and full-scale plants. With this unified presentation, Materials Recovery from Municipal Waste affords the basis for informed decision-making in choosing, designing, and operating materials recovery plants.

    Filled with essential information unavailable in any other single source, Materials Recov­ery from Municipal Waste provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of refuse­derived fuel and densified refuse-derived fuel ... details the unit operation employed for screening and the recovery of glass, magnetic metals, and aluminum ... and guides the specification, testing, and implementation of unit operations for materials recovery.

    This unique reference belongs on the desks of pollution, mechanical, civil, plant, and en­vironmental engineers responsible for the design and operation of materials recovery plants; municipal planners and environmental regulatory officials; consultants in the field of municipal waste disposal; and researchers seeking means to improve the efficiency of materials recovery plants. In addition, Materials Recovery from Municipal Waste serves as an important supplement to advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level environmental, mechanical, civil, and pollution engineering curricula.

    Biography

    HARVEY ALTER is Manager of the Resources Policy Dep'.1rtment of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. From 1972 to 1979 he was Director of Research Programs at the National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc. Dr. Alter was one of the founders and served for five years as the chairman of Committee E-38, Resource Recovery, of the American Society for Testing and Materials. He is Adjunct Professor at American University, Washington, D.C., and has been a guest instructor and lecturer at other universities. Dr. Alter is a journal editor and the author or coauthor of approximately 80 techni­cal publications, including Solid Waste Conversion to Energy: Crrent European and U.S. Practice (with J. J. Dunn, Jr., Marcel Dekker, Inc.). He received a B.S. (1952) degree from Queens College, and M.S. (1954) and Ph.D. (1957) degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Cincinnati.