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WHY RDF?

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Today, the production of refuse derived fuel is an integral part of waste handling.

The need to extract energy from waste such as RDF makes RDF a very important

commodity. 

High calorific factions of commercial waste, production residue, packaging waste, bulky waste and industrial waste can be processed in to refuse derived fuels.

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Potential Users of RDF

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• Fuel-intensive industries for power, heat or both

• Cement factories, textile mills, sugar producers, steel producers

• Incinerators for power, heat or both

• Co-firing with coal at power stations

• Co-firing with other biomass fuels

• Advanced Thermal Treatments such as gasification or pyrolysis

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Depending on its quality, this can be used in industrial furnaces, cement plants, and power plants.

AK Enterprises has a burning interest in refuse derived fuels (RDF). Refuse derived fuels are being used as a cost effective alternative to traditional solid fuels, were industries like the cement industry choosing RDF as a co-firing fuel along side coal (up to 40 : 60, RDF : COAL).

1 tonne of coal attaining the minimum Calorific Value of 4200 can be achieved by the burning of 1.2 tonnes of RDF (where RDF having Calorific values of 3500).

As a fuel, RDF has roughly one-half the Btu value of the same weight of coal. RDF also has a higher ash and chloride content, and lower sulphur content than hard coal.

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