Advanced Thermal Treatment

Advanced Thermal Treatment technologies are primarily those that employ Pyrolysis and/or Gasification to process municipal solid waste (MSW). It excludes Incineration of wastes which is already a mature and well-established technology.

Most commonly, the gas produced from gasification or pyrolysis are combusted to produce electricity.

ATT plants have varying configurations but will typically consist of the following key elements:

• Waste reception, handling and pre-treatment;
• Thermal treatment reactor;
• Gas and residue treatment plant (optional);
• Energy recovery plant (optional); and
• Emissions clean-up .