Energy content of municipal solid waste in Jordan and its potential utilization

Solid Waste Management in Jordan

“…Table 1 shows the physical composition and typical percentage distribution of MSW in Jordan. It can be noticed that the major fraction of composition is food and paper waste (organics which implies a high value of moisture content), as expected, since Jordan is a developing country, and food is the major component of the solid waste stream generated in developing countries (Moh'd Abu-Qudais 2000). About 80% of the total municipal solid wastes are decomposable and recyclable, and the remainder is inert matter.…”

Wastes and biomass materials as sustainable-renewable energy resources for Jordan

“…In the updated master strategy for energy sector for the year 2007-2015 [54] two projects were recommended: Municipal waste exploitation project for electrical power generation project with a capacity of about (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30) MW at an investment volume of $ 30-40 million and utilization of agricultural products project to produce biogas and bio-ethanol at an investment volume of $ 50-100 million. In 2012, the amount of the liquid waste that was processed in Al-Rossaifa for the year 2012 reached 770 m³.…”

“…Glass and metal ceramics, and clay are noncombustible waste fractions, and they comprise on average 2.5% and 6.1% of MSW, respectively. The energy content of the MSW was reported as 11.49 MJ/kg [21]. MSW is transferred to landfills for disposal.…”

“…On the other hand, the reported moisture contents of MSW ranged between 55-65% [18], respectively. The heating values vary between 12.3 [19] to 16.9 MJ/kg-dry wastes [20] for animal manure, while for MSW the heating values estimated at 11.49 MJ/kg [21].…”

Prediction for Energy Content of Taiwan Municipal Solid Waste Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks

“…The estimated energy content of 2747 kcal/kg from MSW was equivalent to ϳ6% of the total annual fuel imported. 8 Additionally, RDF is another type of energy recovery from MSW. Chang et al 9 developed equations to evaluate the heating values of RDF with associated physical and chemical characteristics.…”