Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 389-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Consonni ◽  
Lidia Lombardi ◽  
Federico Viganò
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Energy Technology

Brightstar Solid Waste and Energy Recycling Facility: An Innovative Waste to Energy Technology

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Schwarz ◽  
Leah K. Richter
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Energy Technology ◽  
Pyrolysis Process ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Energy Facility

The Brightstar Environmental Solid Waste and Energy Recycling Facility (SWERF) is a municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy facility utilizing a gasification (pyrolysis) process. At this time, the only operational SWERF is in New South Wales, Australia. While pyrolysis of MSW is not in itself new, the Brightstar technology is believed to have reached a sufficient level of development, and to incorporate sufficient new features, to qualify as new and cutting edge. This paper presents findings from a trip to Australia to inspect the facility, as well as the results of a Request for Proposals process for a municipal client in Florida. Analysis includes process, environmental, and economic factors.

scholarly journals Multi-criteria decision analysis of waste-to-energy technologies for municipal solid waste management in Sultanate of Oman

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 594-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wajeeha A Qazi ◽  
Mohammed FM Abushammala ◽  
Mohammed-Hasham Azam
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Energy Technology ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The Sultanate of Oman faces challenges, like rapid growth of waste generation, which calls for an optimum waste management strategy. Oman has witnessed the production of 1.5m t of municipal solid waste in 2012, which is expected to elevate to 1.89m t in 2030. This rapid increase needs to be tackled to reduce the generation rates along with the environmental impacts. Currently, there are no treatment facilities in Oman other than limited recycling, and therefore dumping waste into the landfill is the only ultimate way to dispose solid waste. Hence, this study is an initiative to improve the waste managing system in Oman by proposing optimum waste-to-energy technology using an analytical hierarchy process, manually and through expect choice software as well. In the present study, the identified important parameters were considered in an analytical hierarchy process model to rank the waste-to-energy technology alternatives. Based on the survey conducted, the most important criteria were environmental and economic, with the local priority vector of 0.400 and 0.277, respectively. This research concludes that the most suitable waste-to-energy technology for Oman, on the basis of the identified criteria, is anaerobic digestion followed by fermentation and incineration, which will help to reduce the amount of waste, greenhouse gas emissions and developing and maintaining costs of landfills.

Municipal solid waste-to-energy processing for a circular economy in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 111080
Author(s):  
M.T. Munir ◽  
Ahmad Mohaddespour ◽  
A.T. Nasr ◽  
Susan Carter
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Energy Processing

Comparison of trace element mobility from MSWI ash before and after plasma vitrification

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110115
Author(s):  
Wesley N Oehmig ◽  
Justin Roessler ◽  
Abdul Mulla Saleh ◽  
Kyle A Clavier ◽  
Christopher C Ferraro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Incineration ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
Plasma Arc ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Incineration ◽  
Trace Element Mobility ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Air Pollution Control Residues

A common perception of plasma arc treatment systems for municipal solid waste incineration ash is that the resulting vitrified slag is inert from an environmental perspective. Research was conducted to examine this hypothesis and to assess whether reduced pollutant release results from pollutant depletion during the process of the ash with plasma, or encapsulation in the glassy vitrified matrix. The concentrations of four discrete municipal solid waste incineration ash samples before and after plasma arc vitrification in a bench-scale unit were compared. Slag and untreated ash samples were leached using several standardized approaches and mobility among the four metals of interest (e.g. As, Cd, Pb and Sb) varied across samples, but was generally high (as high as 100% for Cd). Comparison across methods did not indicate substantial encapsulation in the vitrified slag, which suggests that reduced pollutant release from plasma arc vitrified slag is due to pollutant depletion by volatilization, not encapsulation. This has significant implications for the management of air pollution control residues from waste-to-energy facilities using plasma arc vitrification.

scholarly journals A Techno-Economic Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Conversion to Energy in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7232
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mufti Azis ◽  
Jonas Kristanto ◽  
Chandra Wahyu Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Electricity Price ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Operational Cost ◽  
Internal Rate Of Return ◽  
Sensitive Factor

Municipal solid waste (MSW) processing is still problematic in Indonesia. From the hierarchy of waste management, it is clear that energy recovery from waste could be an option after prevention and the 5R (rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle) processes. The Presidential Regulation No 35/2018 mandated the acceleration of waste-to-energy (WtE) plant adoption in Indonesia. The present study aimed to demonstrate a techno-economic evaluation of a commercial WtE plant in Indonesia by processing 1000 tons of waste/day to produce ca. 19.7 MW of electricity. The WtE electricity price is set at USD 13.35 cent/kWh, which is already higher than the average household price at USD 9.76 cent/kWh. The capital investment is estimated at USD 102.2 million. The annual operational cost is estimated at USD 12.1 million and the annual revenue at USD 41.6 million. At this value, the internal rate of return (IRR) for the WtE plant is 25.32% with a payout time (PoT) of 3.47 years. In addition, this study also takes into account electricity price sales, tipping fee, and pretreatment cost of waste. The result of a sensitivity analysis showed that the electricity price was the most sensitive factor. This study reveals that it is important to maintain a regulated electricity price to ensure the sustainability of the WtE plant in Indonesia.

A novel transdisciplinary paradigm for municipal solid waste to energy

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 880-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mir Sayed Shah Danish ◽  
Tomonobu Senjyu ◽  
Hameedullah Zaheb ◽  
Najib Rahman Sabory ◽  
Abdul Matin Ibrahimi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste To Energy

Numerical Analysis of Size Reduction of Municipal Solid Waste Particles on the Traveling Grate of a Waste-to-Energy Combustion Chamber

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masato Nakamura ◽  
Marco J. Castaldi ◽  
Nickolas J. Themelis
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Combustion Chamber ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Size Reduction ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Size Change ◽  
Model Combining ◽  
Shrinking Core ◽  
Waste Particles

The size reduction of municipal solid waste (MSW) particles on the reverse acting traveling grate of a waste-to-energy (WTE) combustion chamber was estimated by means of a numerical model combining the particle size distributions (PSD) of MSW and combustion residues and the Shrinking Core Model (SCM). This new integrated model was used to simulate the particle behavior on the grate. During their travel on the moving grate, the sizes of the particles are reduced by combustion, breakage, and compaction. This study shows the calculation of the particle size change using this model and comparison of the numerically derived PSDs of MSW and ash particles with experimental data. There is good agreement between calculated and measured values.

Recapture of Energy and Metals From MSW and ASR

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jaap ◽  
Daniel J. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Energy Technology ◽  
Equivalent Source ◽  
Shredder Residue ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Research Corporation ◽  
Scrap Recycling

CarbonTech, LLC is the business vehicle to commercialize the licensed CATO Research Corporation process (US Patent No. 7,425,315) to generate an energy rich source of carbon from wastes such as municipal solid waste (MSW) and automobile shredder residue (ASR). With a focus on renewable energy technology, CarbonTech is in a unique position to reduce waste to landfills by 90%, generate a coal equivalent source of sustainable fuel to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and recover metals for scrap recycling purposes.

Assessment of a residual municipal solid waste landfill for prospective ‘landfill mining’

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1229-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Faitli ◽  
S Nagy ◽  
R Romenda ◽  
I Gombkötő ◽  
L Bokányi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Landfill ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Waste Landfill ◽  
Landfill Mining ◽  
Sampling Campaign ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Landfill mining is a prospective tool for the recycling of valuable materials (waste-to-material) and secondary fuel (waste-to-energy) from old, therefore more or less stabilised municipal solid waste landfills. The main target of Horizon 2020 ‘SMARTGROUND’ R&D was improving the availability and accessibility of data and information from both urban landfills and mining dumps through a set of activities to integrate all the data – from existing sources and new information retrieved with time progress – in a single EU database. Concerning urban landfills, a new sampling protocol was designed on the basis of the current Hungarian national municipal solid waste analysis standards, optimised for landfill mining. This protocol was then applied in a sampling campaign on a municipal solid waste landfill in Debrecen, Hungary. The composition and parameters of the landfilled materials were measured as a 12-year timescale. The total wet and dry mass of the valuable components possible for utilisation was estimated.

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