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Conversion of Biomedical Wastes to Energy by Plasma Technologies
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The Biomedical Wastes (BMW) include variety of materials like plastics, radioactive elements, metals, infectious biomolecules, etc which are hazardous and pose potential health risk to the people when they are directly released to environment. There are many technologies for treating biomedical wastes like incineration, steam sterilisation before landfilling, etc. The plasma gasification is the state of art technology for the safe disposal of BMW and also convert them to energy. The plasma gasification operates at very high temperatures and the conversion percentage is relatively high compared to any other gasification technologies. The concept of plasma gasification for BMW and the other techno economical aspects are discussed in this paper.
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Biomedical, Biomedical Waste, Plasma Gasification, Microwave, Waste to Energy
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