System for recycling refuse

An apparatus for recycling municipal waste as energy, the recycling apparatus comprising:

• a shredder for shredding the waste and removing rejects, the rejects from the shredder being sorted into a first stream of inert matter that is substantially non-polluted with organic matter, and into a second stream of inert matter that is substantially polluted with either one of organic matter and combustible heavy elements;
• a first outlet for removing the second stream of inert matter;
• a circulating fluidized bed reactor for receiving the shredded waste and producing gases with solid particles;
• a cyclone for separating out the solid particles, and receiving the gases output by the reactor;
• a recuperator boiler into which the gases output by the cyclone are discharged, and which is provided with a first set of heat exchangers, the boiler including a dust-filtering hopper;
• a second outlet for removing the solid particles from the dust-filtering hopper;
• a second set of heat exchangers disposed in a chamber into which the gases are fed after transiting the boiler;
• a final treatment apparatus for treating the gases and producing solid matter, after the gases transit the chamber;
• a third outlet for removing the solid matter resulting from the final treatment apparatus;
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• an independent melting and vitrification furnace which produces molten matter from which vitricate is processed, the furnace being connected to each of said first outlet said second outlet, and said third outlet by a respective controlled pipe.