Economic and environmental evaluation of climate change mitigation measures in the waste sector of developing countries

Dedinec, Aleksandar; Markovska, Nataša; Ristovski, Igor; Velevski, Gjogi; Gjorgjievska, Verica Taseska; Grncarovska, Teodora Obradovic; Zdraveva, Pavlina

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.05.048

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“…The first focus, mainly related to low-and middleincome settings, pertains to case study descriptions of specific locations implementing composting schemes as waste management strategies ). This typically includes application of life cycle analysis methods as well as economic assessments (Karagiannidis et al 2010;Lim et al 2016;Pandyaswargo and Premakumara 2014;Sán-chez et al 2015) and the analysis of climate change mitigation measures (Dedinec et al 2015). Besides the typical case study descriptions, such research is usually not only about composting, but rather tackles the comparison and selection of waste management options, of which composting is one (Van Fan et al 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Treatment technologies for urban solid biowaste to create value products: a review with focus on low- and middle-income settings

Lohri

Diener

Zabaleta

et al. 2017

Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol

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Section: Products and Usesmentioning

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Treatment technologies for urban solid biowaste to create value products: a review with focus on low- and middle-income settings

Lohri

Diener

Zabaleta

et al. 2017

Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol

234

116

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“…Landfills in Colombia represent 5% of the country´s emissions compared to developed countries such as Macedonia and South Africa where the percentages are 4.3 and 7%, respectively. (Friedrich and Trois, 2013;Dedinec et al, 2015). The GHG generated by the disposal of solid waste in these structures are not considered as a serious problem when viewed from the local point of view, but high concentrations may be generated by a lot of these structures, both controlled and uncontrolled and spread throughout a region, a country or continent.…”

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Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Biowaste for the Production of Renewable Energy: Effect of Particle Size

Parra-Orobio

Torres–Lozada

Marmolejo-Rebellón

2017

Braz. J. Chem. Eng.

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-In recent years, Anaerobic Digestion (AD) has become an important technological alternative for the management of municipal biowaste (MBW) for both pollution control and obtaining renewable energy such as methane. One of the factors that most affects the AD of MBW is the particle size, particularly in the hydrolysis and lag phases, this last being in general the limiting stage of solid waste AD. This research evaluated on a laboratory scale the AD of MBW by evaluating Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) at a temperature of 30 °C during 30 days and the influence of particle size. The particle sizes ranged between < 2 mm to 12.5 mm. Along the study, better results were observed for particle sizes < 2 mm, obtaining productions of methane and electrical energy of 128 mL gVS -1 and 2960.4 kWh week -1 respectively (19% higher than in reactors with larger particles), thus indicating lower costs for design and maintenance.

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“…Technologies that generate energy from waste have proved that they are no longer a threat to environment (E4Tech 2009;UCR 2009;Dedinec et al 2015). Generation of energy from biochemical process (biomethanation in particular) has gained a worldwide acceptance (DEFRA 2007); gasification is still in the process of getting recognition by the environmental society as the process is confused with incineration.…”

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Exploring untapped energy potential of urban solid waste

Vaish

Srivastava

Singh

et al. 2016

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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There is continuous increase in quantum and variety of waste being generated by anthropogenic activities. Burgeoning amount of waste being generated has potential to harm the environment and human health. Aggravating the problem, ever-increasing energy demand is putting strain on the non-renewable sources of energy and there is huge gap between the demand and supply of energy. This has led the scientific communities to adopt innovative methods to reduce, reuse and recycle them. Therefore, there is an urgent need to minimize the quantity of waste and meet the current demand profile of energy is required; technologies to recover energy from waste can play a vital role in substantial energy recovery and reduction in waste for final disposal; in addition to meet the rising energy requirement. Generating power from waste has greatly reduced the environmental impact and dependency on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Economically also it is an optimal solution for recovery of heat and power from waste. This paper gives an overview of energy potential stored in waste, major available waste-to-energy technologies and also strategic action plan for implementation of these technologies.

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Economic and environmental evaluation of climate change mitigation measures in the waste sector of developing countries

Cited by 43 publications

References 16 publications

Treatment technologies for urban solid biowaste to create value products: a review with focus on low- and middle-income settings

Treatment technologies for urban solid biowaste to create value products: a review with focus on low- and middle-income settings

Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Biowaste for the Production of Renewable Energy: Effect of Particle Size

Exploring untapped energy potential of urban solid waste

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