Synergies in Co-combustion of Biomass and Plastics-rich Solid Recovered Fuels

The interest in using biomass as fuel has strongly increased. The available resources of wood fuels in Europe are not sufficient to meet the demand, and this pushes the market prices of wood even higher. The availability of biomass is often locally limited. At these conditions, the co-combustion of low priced plastic rich solid recovered fuel (SRF) and biomass is an attractive option to improve the economy of energy conversion in boilers that can technically use SRF and meet the environmental requirements without large investments.