Considering gasification, a variety of processes may be applied for municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment; they are usually classified in view of the gasifying agent, reactor design, heat supply, pressure, temperature and form of solid residue [
1]. However, majority of gasification-based plants, e.g., listed in [
2], use air, not steam, as a gasifying agent, presumably due to negative energy balance of the process and specific technical problems of the such units. On the other hand, there were reported pilot, demonstration or industrial pyrolysis plants using indirect heating, some of them combining pyrolysis, gasification and melting operations [
3]. Combination of two processes, i.e., thermolysis (pyrolysis) and steam gasification, was suggested in 1998 as a method of upgrading of the waste-derived solid fuel [
4]. Based on laboratory experiments, authors of the paper demonstrated that the process enables trapping of some heavy metals by admixture of the kaolinite to gasified material and recovery of the gas composed mainly of H
2 (more than 50 vol.%) and carbon oxides CO/CO
2. At the same time, there was a paper published presenting in detail the possible development of RDF (refuse derived fuel) gasification with the O
2/steam mixture in the circulating bed gasifier, developed up to the industrial scale [
5]. However, some years later, in 2004, T. Malkow wrote in an extensive paper [
6] that “pyrolysis and gasification stand-alone applications … are in Europe still in a premature stage and expected not to play a major role in the near future” (T. Malkow presented in the same paper a large diversity of these technologies—investigated, tested or in use). A classical approach to the steam gasification of MSW has been presented in a set of papers of Chinese authors that were started in 2009. The series was opened with discussion of results of gasifying experiments performed in the laboratory-scale in the two-stage fixed bed reactor with samples of original MSW and natural dolomite as catalyst for cracking of tars [
7,
8]. Similar experiments were also performed in modified reactors for the evaluation of the catalyst, temperature, steam-to-MSW ratio and space velocity effect on the produced gas volume and composition [
9,
10,
11,
12,
13]. Moreover, there are also papers comparing gasification of MSW with gasification of tires, poplar, RDF [
14] or rubber, plastic and wood waste [
15]. It seems that interest in steam gasification of MSW gradually increases now, and there are new papers being presented with a more general insight into the process, e.g., into a route for energy recovery [
16], analysis of the process performance [
17] or exergy [
18]. This last one was based on the results of experiments in a semi-industrial fluidized bed gasifier, or conversion of MSW to SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) [
19]. Generally, researchers’ attention was paid especially (but not only) to the gas quality, e.g., the syngas for methanol synthesis [
2] or concentration of hydrogen [
9,
10,
12,
20,
21,
22]. It should be noted that thermodynamic modeling and simulation plays an important role in the analysis and technological assessments of gasification processing of waste, as was presented in papers on the syngas production from MSW in a bubbling fluidized bed [
23], on the mathematical modeling of the MSW gasifier [
24], in the CFD model (Computational Fluid Dynamics) of syngas production in a semi-industrial MSW gasification facility [
25] and related CFD modeling of hydrogen production from MSW in comparison to biomass [
26]. Usefulness of different forms of gasification for agro-waste should also be mentioned [
27,
28,
29,
30].