PEF:THE FUEL OF FUTURE

ABSTRACT: Process Engineered Fuels (densified fuels) have frequently been criticized as being too costly to be a major player for renewable fuels. Much of this criticism originated from some early plants that were hastily constructed in the late 1970s during the first oil crisis. They suffered from poor planning and full understanding of what it took to compete with liquid fossil fuels when oil prices returned to normal. Plants that did have the foresight and …

…require overcoming the existing barriers to the industry, but it is possible that PEF could become a growing source of renewable fuel that also results in a further reduction of the nation's dependence on landfill disposal. REFERENCES: 1)www.plasticresource.com 2)www.plastic.org 3)www.tifac.com 4)www.geocities.com 5) Engineered Fuel: Renewable Fuel of the Future? - Solid Waste Technologies, January/February 1997-by: Laurie Toinezyk, P.E., senior project manager for R.W. Beck, Inc.,