Waste to energy potential in middle income countries of MENA region based on multi-scenario analysis for Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt

Abdallah, Mohamed; Shanableh, Abdallah; Arab, Mohamed G.; Shabib, Ahmad; Adghim, Mohamad; El-Sherbiny, Rami

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.029

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Food Waste in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Review

Bilali

Hassen

2020

Foods

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Food waste (FW) is a critical challenge in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This paper analyzes research dealing with food waste in the GCC countries (viz. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates). It draws upon a systematic review performed on Scopus in January 2020. The paper covers both bibliometrics (e.g., authors, affiliations, journals) and research topics (e.g., causes, food supply chain stages, extent and quantity, food security, economic impacts, environmental implications, management strategies). A main finding of the review is the scarcity of data on FW in the GCC in general and in Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain in particular. Most of the selected articles address FW reuse and recycling (e.g., waste-to-energy conversion, compost production). Indeed, other FW management strategies, such as reduction/prevention and redistribution, are overlooked. The systematic review highlights that further research on FW in the GCC is highly needed with a focus on the identified research gaps such as causes and drivers, trends, magnitude and extent, environmental and economic impacts, along with implications of food wastage in terms of food security. Since food wastage is a common issue for all GCC countries, these research gaps should be addressed in a shared regional research agenda.

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Food Waste in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Review

Bilali

Hassen

2020

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“…It was also found that implementing AD in dairy farms could reduce the annual methane emissions in the United States by 7% [11]. Reference [12] showed that AD facilities would reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by around 98,500 Gg CO2-eq. in selected Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries.…”

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Design Configurations and Operating Parameters of Bio-electrochemically Enhanced Anaerobic Digestion

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Abdallah²,

Shanableh³

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IJESD

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Bio-electrochemical anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most recent advancement in anaerobic treatment processes. Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are used for bio-electrochemical treatment, where the supplied external power is used to enhance the performance of AD. Multiple studies have investigated the viability of MECs under various operating parameters and for different organic wastes. The present paper aims at reviewing the latest literature regarding bio-electrochemical enhanced AD through MECs. It was concluded that MEC reactors significantly enhance AD performance under different supplied voltages, temperatures, electrodes configuration, as well as other operating parameters. Based on the compiled literature, further comprehensive life cycle assessment of MECs is recommended prior to any full-scale implementation.

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“…Not only these methods but nowadays worldwide environmental researchers are interested on waste to energy through incineration, biological fermentation of organic waste for biofuel production and so on. All these treatment methods show a great contribution in solid waste management because it increases the quantity of wastes treated and the quality of their end products (Weimer et al, 2015;Jankowska et al, 2017;Abdallah et al, 2019).…”

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Current situation of solid waste management in East African countries and the proposal for sustainable management

Ntagisanimana¹,

Yu²,

Ma³

2021

Afr. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Effects of unsustainable solid waste management are found all around the world but it is worse in developing and under developed countries like East African Community (EAC) countries. A big proportion of their solid waste is not properly managed. This paper highlighted the situation of solid wastes management in EAC countries and compared with other countries. More than 62.5% of generated solid waste in EAC is organic, 19.6% of papers and plastics, 3% of glasses while other kind of waste occupies 14.9%. Waste management (WM) system in developing countries is dominated by insanitary landfill which cover more than 59% of the total collected SW, between 13 and 33% is openly dumped, a negligible quantity is recycled while between 6 and 26% is inappropriately thrown. Only less than 50% of the total generated solid waste (SW) in developing countries is collected and this is the same case in EAC. Sanitary landfill, sustainable composting, waste to energy (WTE) and other recycling system can change waste from unwanted materials to important products. Almost all generated wastes in developed and highly developing countries are collected, with high generation site sorting and sustainably treated and managed. Some countries achieved zero landfilling while others have sanitary landfills. The final destination of each kind of waste in developed countries determine collection mean and improve the quality of raw materials for recycling companies. Value of sorted waste to the recycling companies improves the interest of generation site sorting and maximization collection.

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Waste to energy potential in middle income countries of MENA region based on multi-scenario analysis for Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt

Cited by 45 publications

References 14 publications

Food Waste in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Review

Food Waste in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Review

Design Configurations and Operating Parameters of Bio-electrochemically Enhanced Anaerobic Digestion

Current situation of solid waste management in East African countries and the proposal for sustainable management

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