Prospects for the use of municipal solid wastes as secondary energy resources in Russia

Тугов, А. Н.

doi:10.1134/s0040601513090139

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“…The Confederation of the European Waste to Energy Plants reported that in the year 2018, Germany diverted 31% of the total municipal solid waste generated in the country into WTE facilities, while during the same year in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, the diversion reached more than 50% [11][12][13]. While many countries around the world are moving from a linear to circular economy, the WTE technologies became part of circular economy models [14], as shown in Figure 1 [15]. However, this is not the case in the Russian Federation, where the contribution of the renewable energy in general and the WTE in particular in the total energy mix of the country is still very low [16][17][18].…”

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Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Select Waste to Energy Technology for a Mega City: The Case of Moscow

Kurbatova

Qdais

2020

Sustainability

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In a mega city like Moscow, both municipal solid waste management and energy systems are managed in an unsustainable way. Therefore, utilizing the municipal solid waste to generate energy will help the city in achieving sustainability by decreasing greenhouse gases emissions and the need for land to dispose the solid waste. In this study, various Waste to Energy (WTE) options were evaluated using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to select the most appropriate technology for the Moscow region. The developed AHP model consists of 4 levels, which assessed four WTE technologies, namely landfill biogas, anaerobic digestion, incineration, and refuse derived fuel (RDF), using four criteria and nine subcriteria. The pairwise comparison was achieved by soliciting 16 experts’ opinions. The priority weights of various criteria, subcriteria, and alternatives were determined using Expert Choice Software. The developed model indicated that landfill biogas is the preferred option with a global weight of 0.448, followed by the anaerobic digestion with a weight of 0.320 and incineration with a weight of 0.138, while the least preferred technology is the RDF with a weight of 0.094. Sensitivity analysis has shown that the priorities of WTE alternatives are sensitive for the environmental and technical criteria. The developed AHP model can be used by the decision makers in Moscow in the field of WTE.

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Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Select Waste to Energy Technology for a Mega City: The Case of Moscow

Kurbatova

Qdais

2020

Sustainability

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“…Different studies show that the potential of recovering energy from landfill gas in the Russian Federation is high (Arkharov et al 2016;Sliusar and Armisheva 2013;Starostina et al 2018;Volynkina et al 2009). Waste-to-energy technology is still in its infancy in Russia; the country is lagging in this area (Tugov 2013). Despite that, there is a great interest among the public as well as the private sector in the possibilities of the recovery of energy from MSW.…”

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Municipal solid waste management in Russia: potentials of climate change mitigation

Wünsch

Tsybina

2021

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The goal of this study was to assess the impact of the introduction of various waste management methods on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from these activities. The assessment was carried out on the example of the Russian waste management sector. For this purpose, three scenarios had been elaborated for the development of the Russian waste management sector: Basic scenario, Reactive scenario and Innovative scenario. For each of the scenarios, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated during waste management was calculated. The calculation was based on the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. The results of the greenhouse gas net emissions calculation are as follows: 64 Mt CO2-eq./a for the basic scenario, 12.8 Mt CO2-eq./a for the reactive scenario, and 3.7 Mt CO2-eq./a for the innovative scenario. An assessment was made of the impact of the introduction of various waste treatment technologies on the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions generated in the waste management sector. An important factor influencing the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from landfills is the recovery and thermal utilization of 60% of the generated landfill gas. The introduction of a separate collection system that allows to separately collect 20% of the total amount of generated municipal solid waste along with twofold increase in the share of incinerated waste leads to a more than threefold reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions from the waste management sector.

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The environmental impacts and sustainable pathways of the global diamond industry

Sun,

Jiang,

Wang

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Mining diamond poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to the environment worldwide. Here, we propose a Diamond Environmental Impacts Estimation (DEIE) model to forecast the environmental indicators, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mineral waste, and water usage of the diamond industry from 2030 to 2100 in the top diamond production countries under different Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs). The DEIE projection results indicate that the annual GHG emissions, mineral waste, and water usage of the global diamond industry will reach 9.65 Mt, 422.80 Mt, and 78.68 million m3 under the SSP1-1.9 scenario, and 13.26 Mt, 582.84 Mt, and 107.95 million m3 under the SSP2-2.6 scenario in 2100, respectively. We analyze the environmental impact heterogeneities and the associated driving factors across the major diamond production countries identified by our DEIE framework. In addition, we find that lab-grown diamonds can reduce annual GHG emissions, mineral waste, and water usage by 9.58 Mt, 421.06 Mt, and 66.70 million m3 in 2100. The lab-grown diamond substitution policy can annually save 714 million cubic meters of landfill space, harvest 255 million kilograms of rice, feed 436 million people, and lift 1.19 million households out of hunger. The lab-grown diamond substitution policy could contribute to the diamond industry’s GHG mitigation and sustainability efforts in a cost-saving manner.

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Prospects for the use of municipal solid wastes as secondary energy resources in Russia

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Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Select Waste to Energy Technology for a Mega City: The Case of Moscow

Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Select Waste to Energy Technology for a Mega City: The Case of Moscow

Municipal solid waste management in Russia: potentials of climate change mitigation

The environmental impacts and sustainable pathways of the global diamond industry

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