Proper and cost-effective discard of municipal solid waste
(MSW) continues to be a problem. Among the various hurdles to
apply wastes as fuels for power generation there are their high
moisture content and low average heating value [1–8]. Additionally,
due to the proximity of urban areas, any process has to
conform to very low pollutant emission standards. Combining
minimization of environmental effects and efficient thermoelectric
power generation efficiency is always a challenge [1,9]. The relatively
high temperatures found in the combustion chambers of
conventional processes based on pulverized fuel combustion lead
to high NOx concentration in flue gases. In addition, those
processes require costly scrubbing to eliminate SOx and other pollutants
[8–12].