The potential for chrome tanning waste to be used as an inexpensive and environmentally-compatible fuel has been highlighted in a new Brazilian research paper.

Published by Engineer Leandro Dalla Zen, co-ordinator of the Combustion Laboratory of Cientec - Science and Technology Foundation, Porto Alegre/RS, the paper is the outcome of six year’s research into the ‘fluid bed’ combustion process, where duly prepared solid waste is combusted while suspended in fluid.

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