Municipal solid waste as a valuable renewable energy resource: a worldwide opportunity of energy recovery by using Waste-To-Energy Technologies

Moya, Diego; Aldás, Clay; López, Germánico; Kaparaju, Prasad

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.618

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“…In line with this, recent studies show that 1.3 billion tonnes of solid waste per year have been generated from global cities with an annual cost of $205.4 billion [1]. The study also predicts that it will be 2.2 billion tonnes of solid waste and costs $375.5 billion per year by 2025% [2]. This huge waste has become serious challenges for the environment and public health [3].…”

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confidence: 84%

Bahir Dar City Municipal Solid Waste Potential Assessment for Clean Energy

Asmare¹

2019

AJEE

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Nowadays, Carbon-rich fuels are the principal energy supply utilized for powering human society, and it will be continued for the next some decades. Connecting with this, modern energy technologies are very essential to convert the available limited carbon-rich fuels and other green alternative energies into useful energy efficiently with an insignificant environmental impression. Therefore, the main objectives of this study are assessing the potential of municipal biomass solid waste for briquette production in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia. To conduct this research, various data collection instrument tools were used to achieve the intended objectives for instance questionnaire, direct measurement, field observation and related literature based on necessity. Moreover, to confirm the reliability of the information obtained through a questionnaire, a focus group discussion was conducted with different concerned bodies. The main finding of this study shows that Bahir Dar city has the potential to generate 50.19 tons of municipal biomass solid waste per day. The collected waste was characterized as 82.5% of them is organic waste that may be converted in to clean energy (briquette and biogas) based on their sized whereas the remaining 17.5% of them were inorganic (plastics, glass, and metals) that can be resent for recycling and reuse to their original sources. Biomass-related solid municipal waste is a promising potential to utilize as a feedstock for briquette production. Besides, it has a prodigious role to reduce deforestation, land degradation, save foreign currency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is because the demands of household's energy that was fulfilled with wood charcoals and fossil fuels are substituted with locally available renewable energy sources. The experimental results confirmed that all the physicochemical properties of briquette charcoal that are produced from municipal solid biomass waste were acceptable. Besides, the burning efficiency of the briquette, fanning time and carbon content determination were measured and obtained as adequate results based on the standards. Hence, it will be a possible alternative fuel for household energy using a special design stove that is available in the market. It has also played a great role in waste management and treatment system to achieve sustainable clean city developments.

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Section: Background Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 84%

Bahir Dar City Municipal Solid Waste Potential Assessment for Clean Energy

Asmare¹

2019

AJEE

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“…Recently, energy has a major role in the establishment of wealth and a key issue factor in economic stabilization [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. The energy demand of the world is sharply increasing with the increasing of world population, urbanization and modernization and is expected to keep rising over the coming years [16][17][18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%

Map of Jordan governorates wind distribution and mean power density

Alrwashdeh

2018

IJET

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The Renewable energy potential in Jordan is enormous as it lies within the top of the world countries renewable resources. Electricity demand in Jordan plays a major role in the high amount of energy requring to cover the needs of heating, cooling, lighting, etc. For that, the availability of the wind distribution information becomes essential to help in the design and building of the wind energy application. In this study, a wind distribution map is provided of all Jordan

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“…Restoration of degraded land, water or waste sites may also support collection of energy as a byproduct, by producing crops on degraded or contaminated sites to increase biodiversity, reverse soil erosion, desertification and high salinity, increase soil carbon, and improve water quality (Baumber 2016;Gasparatos et al 2017), or by using algal turf scrubbers on degraded surface waters to produce biofuels and recover phosphorus (Adey, Kangas, and Mulbry 2011;Roy 2017). Restoration of existing waste sites may use technologies such as anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, landfill gas utilization and biorefineries (Seltenrich 2016;Moya et al 2017) within the context of broader restorative efforts and waste hierarchies.…”

Section: Bioenergymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Opportunities for ecological enhancement using bioenergy are limited here to practices that make use of residual organic waste streams produced through ecologically-enhancing land and water management or that produce energy as a byproduct of site restoration. 1 Such practices are best implemented within broader strategies for circular economies that prevent, reuse and recycle biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials, including waste management systems that producing energy to support materials cycling (European Commission 2017; Moya et al 2017).…”

Section: Bioenergymentioning

confidence: 99%