**Table 6.**

*Energy balance.*

The gasification process is carried out in a plant that is composed of two sections:


The conversion section is composed of the gasifier itself and the thermal cracking reactor where the tar undergoes cracking and upgrading. The gasifier is fed with the waste once shredded and compacted in order to increase the bulk density at a suitable value to guarantee a constant mechanical feeding. The waste is then converted into syngas by recurring to a thermal cracking at high temperature, sustained by plasma torches, providing a thermal load of 125 kW.

The gasifier temperature as obtained by the energy balance results to be 1350°C in the homogeneous phase. The air-to-waste ratio has been fixed at 2.13 and corresponds to an equivalence ratio of 0.25.

The main input and output parameters are reported in **Table 8**.
