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# Long description

Figure 10 shows a cut-away diagram of a modern energy-from-waste plant, showing energy generation and pollution control. Municipal sold was is shown being tipped from a skip wagon on the left of the diagram in to a large trash storage bunker. A grabber then transfers the waste into a furnace where it is burnt. Ash falls onto an ash conveyor belt and out to a lorry on the right of the diagram to take it to a landfill. Flue gases form in the combustion chamber where nitrogen dioxide is removed (labelled 1 on the diagram). The flue gases are then shown travelling from the combustion chamber to raising steam in a turbine generator to power the grid which is indicated by schematic electricity pylons. Other flue gases travel through towers and pipework which sequentially remove mercury and dioxins (labelled 2 on the diagram) and acid gases (labelled 3 on the diagram). A box shows the particulate removal systems (labelled 4 on the diagram), and the flue gases flow through the testing and pollution control system (labelled 5 on the diagram). They then exit, as cleaned flue gases and water vapour, through a tall chimney on the right of the diagram to the atmosphere.