Effects of enhanced metal recovery on the recycling potential of MSWI bottom ash fractions in various legal frameworks.

In recent years, complex new bottom ash treatment processes for enhanced metal recovery have been implemented in Switzerland, producing residual bottom ash fractions with various qualities. This study focusses on three different treatment processes by characterizing all arising fractions in detail. Thereby the factors influencing the composition of these fractions are identified and their recycling potential in Switzerland is investigated.

The environmental performance of enhanced metal recovery from dry municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash.

This study assesses the environmental performance of the municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration bottom ash (IBA) treatment plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, a large-scale industrial plant, which also serves as a full-scale laboratory for new technologies and aims at an optimal recovery of metals in terms of quantity and quality. Based on new mass-flow data, we perform a life cycle assessment that includes the recovery of iron, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, lead, silver and gold. Fraction-specific modelling allows for investigating the effect of the metal fraction quality on the subsequent secondary metal production as well as examining further metal recycling potentials in the residual IBA.

Dataset on ten-years monitoring of MSWI bottom ashes in six MSWI plants in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

The dataset presented in this article is the supplementary data for the research article "Ten-years monitoring of MSWI bottom ashes with focus on TOC development and leaching behaviour" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.

Ten-years monitoring of MSWI bottom ashes with focus on TOC development and leaching behaviour.

In Switzerland MSWI bottom ash has to comply with the legal threshold value for TOC of < 2 wt-% in order to be landfilled. However, TOC contents of this magnitude lead to elevated DOC emissions and associated emissions of ammonium and Cu (aq). Since 2008 the Canton of Zürich therefore pursues a strategy to lower TOC contents in bottom ash by 2020 to 0.

Extraction of heavy metals from MSWI fly ash using hydrochloric acid and sodium chloride solution.

Fly ash from municipal solid waste incineration contains a large potential for recyclable metals such as Zn, Pb, Cu and Cd. The Swiss Waste Ordinance prescribes the treatment of fly ash and recovery of metals to be implemented by 2021. More than 60% of the fly ash in Switzerland is acid leached according to the FLUWA process, which provides the basis for metal recovery.

Chemical associations and mobilization of heavy metals in fly ash from municipal solid waste incineration.

This study focusses on chemical and mineralogical characterization of fly ash and leached filter cake and on the determination of parameters influencing metal mobilization by leaching. Three different leaching processes of fly ash from municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) plants in Switzerland comprise neutral, acidic and optimized acidic (+ oxidizing agent) fly ash leaching have been investigated. Fly ash is characterized by refractory particles (Al-foil, unburnt carbon, quartz, feldspar) and newly formed high-temperature phases (glass, gehlenite, wollastonite) surrounded by characteristic dust rims.