Technical-economic analysis of a municipal solid waste energy recovery facility in Spain: A case study

Medina-Mijangos, Rubí; Seguí-Amórtegui, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2020.09.035

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“…These values show that the private costs of the STF are higher than those of the landfills; however, the STF is highly profitable due to both its private and external revenues. On the other hand, if the results are compared with another facility that provides waste treatment in the AMB, we can see that the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) has a Private Benefit (B P ) of 9.86 €/ton and a Total Benefit (B T ) of 23.97 €/ton [28]. This shows that the STF is more advantageous from an environmental and social point of view, consistent with the current hierarchy of priorities established by the European Parliament [71].…”

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“…This impact group includes the private revenues obtained by the plant (Table 3), which can be classified as: (a) revenues from the sale of materials obtained from waste; (b) gate fees, which represent the payment to the provider of treatment services for each ton of waste treated; and (c) other revenues, such as payment for services rendered to other companies and rental of equipment, among others [28]. Referring to the 2017 revenues, this includes the sale of treated light packaging waste, which recovered 15,868 tons of materials that were sent to recycling plants and 6938 tons were sent to the energy recovery facility.…”

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The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Medina-Mijangos

Zein

Guerrero-García-Rojas

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Eur

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Background The waste sorting and treatment facilities play an important role in the management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), as they permit the materials to be prepared for their later reuse and recycling. The aim of this work is to carry out a technical–economic analysis of a sorting and treatment facility (STF) of light packaging and bulky waste in Gavà-Viladecans, Barcelona, Spain, by means of a methodology based on a social Cost–Benefit Analysis (sCBA), as it studies the private impacts and externalities (impacts related with environmental and social aspects) to determine the Total Benefit (the difference between revenues and costs) generated by the facility to decide whether it is operationally and economically profitable. Results The key point of the case study is the identification, frequency, quantification and monetary valuation of the impacts generated by the facility, as well as the sale of materials, the CO2 emissions and the increase in the availability of materials, among others. By applying the methodology, it has been possible to show that this facility is operationally (BP = 7.06 €/ton) as well as economically (BT = 55.72 €/ton) profitable. Conclusions The plant is highly profitable from a social and environmental perspective, as can be seen from the monetary valuation of the externalities. The STF fulfils a primordial function for the city of Barcelona and its environs, as it treats waste for later reuse and recycling, preventing waste from being sent to landfills and reducing the CO2 emissions from the extraction of virgin raw materials, thereby helping to reach the objectives set by the European Commission. Finally, this paper provides a guide for future researchers and decision makers interested in the economic analysis of MSW management systems.

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The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Medina-Mijangos

Zein

Guerrero-García-Rojas

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Eur

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“…In Spain, only the 37.5% of the electric energy comes from renewable sources [2]. In 2017, for example, 73.9% of the fuel needed for generating primary non-renewable energy was obtained from Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Mexico and Peru, among others [3].…”

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Study of the energy recovery of slaughterhouse waste. The case of Tenerife

Pérez¹,

Rodríguez²,

Díaz³

et al. 2024

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Tenerife is one of the main islands of the Canary Islands, which, due to its characteristics as outermost region, has a high energy dependence as well as a limitation on available territory; in addition, as it has been designated as a Remote Area, the elimination of Animal By-Products (ABPs) in landfills is permitted. This treatment does not contribute to the current trend of a circular economy and negatively harms the environment. The energy recovery of this waste through anaerobic digestion to produce biogas would enhance the use of renewable energies, contributing to the meat industry's energy independence and better management of the waste generated by this industry in Tenerife, promoting an energy transition towards cleaner energies. The study of the potential for biomethanization has been carried out both separately and in co-digestion in search of the best biogas production. Of the samples studied, only biogas was obtained in the anaerobic digestion of the rumen content, sewage sludge and for the co-digestion of viscera (cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, and rabbits) with raw blood and sewage sludge. The latter produces 128 mL of biogas per gram of volatile solids (VS) of the mixture, resulting in a total of 4,800 kWhe of electrical energy for Tenerife's estimated waste in 2019.

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“…Regarding the economic sustainability of WM, it has been previously analysed in numerous publications when different parts of MSW management have been looked upon, e.g. one type of facility (Colvero et al 2020, Medina-Mijangos andSeguí-Amórtegui 2021), or one type of waste (Schneider et al 2021, de Brito et al 2021. Also, Luz et al (2015) conducted a technoeconomic analysis of MSW energy recovery via gasification, and Ramos et al (2020) conducted reported life cycle cost (LCC) results of plasma gasification, but in previous analyses of alternative treatment technologies, either analysis of specific waste fraction is reported, either, like in mentioned analyses, comparison of analysed technology with most common alternative is given.…”

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Economic efficiency of resource recovery—analysis of time-dependent changes on sustainability perception of waste management scenarios

Tomić

Kremer

Schneider

2021

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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Waste management systems are modelled to provide a public waste management service and need to be able to meet environmental sustainability requirements at a cost that is acceptable to system users/citizens. Overall environmental, economic, and/or socio-economic sustainability of waste management in previous publications is done through independent analyses and comparisons of obtained results or through multicriterial ranking of different alternatives where final results do not have a meaningful physical significance and cannot be interpreted independently. At the same time, those analysis either neglect time dependant changes by focusing on moment in time, or take into account changes in some timeframe changes but report only ranking focused single-score results, thus, results neglect time-dependent developments. All of these approaches are lacking some information needed for informed decision-making and/or are difficult to understand by wider groups of people. Thus, in this study, link between economic and environmental sustainability is analysed through newly defined single-score Economic Efficiency of Resource Recovery (EERR) index that shows the specific system cost for achieving identified resource recovery, while legislation based time dependent changes are taken into account through successive analyses for legislative most important years. This approach can be used for benchmarking the overall (environmental and economic) sustainability trends, while its graphical representation enables easier presentation of sustainability results and can be used for easier comparison of possible solutions and decisionmaking. The results show that the quality decision-making process needs to take into account the impact of expected changes on overall sustainability and evaluate how they will affect the actual perception of used technologies. In this context, it is shown that overall changes in sustainability, in comparison to the existing perception, can significantly change, depending on which technologies the system is based on.

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Technical-economic analysis of a municipal solid waste energy recovery facility in Spain: A case study

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Study of the energy recovery of slaughterhouse waste. The case of Tenerife

Economic efficiency of resource recovery—analysis of time-dependent changes on sustainability perception of waste management scenarios

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