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.

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

Do economic factors cause change in productivity and stability in the New South Wales arid zone?

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
J.R. Anderson ◽  
PA Bruyn
Keyword(s):  
Arid Zone ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Western Division

A framework is suggested and explored for examining the influence of economic factors on changes in productivity and stability in the Western Division of New South Wales. The conclusion is reached that, excepting for an extraordinary peak of productivity around 1890, productivity continues to move up and down in a manner as unstable as ever. Economic factors seemingly play no clear role in influencing changes in productivity and only a slight and ambiguous role in influencing changes in stability.

Economic Factors and Wage Fixation Principles: Developments in New South Wales in 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-376
Author(s):  
J.W. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The State ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Previous Approach ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Fixation Principles

The inflationary movement of 1974 presented a challenge for the time- honoured principles of wage-fixatian developed by the New South Wales system of industrial relations. An examination of the key wages decisions of the State Industrial Commission shows how recognition of the concept of "community-wide movement in wages" enabled the tribunal to flexibly deal with the new economic reality. However, it also demonstrates the difficulty exposed in the previous approach of segregating "economic" and "work value" factors in the wage assessment process—a difficulty ultimately recognized by the Commission.

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.

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