Solid Waste Management and Incineration Practice: A Study of Bangladesh

Management of municipal solid waste incineration residues.

The management of residues from thermal waste treatment is an integral part of waste management systems. The primary goal of managing incineration residues is to prevent any impact on our health or environment caused by unacceptable particulate, gaseous and/or solute emissions. This paper provides insight into the most important measures for putting this requirement into practice. It also offer...

Urban Solid Waste Management Scenario of Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects

Incineration Technologies for Managing Solid Waste

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, however, mitigate the risks to public health and make incineration an alternative worth exploring. Incineration can reduce solid waste to 85 percent to 90 percent of the incoming volume, or 65 percent to 80 percent of the incoming weight. With some modification, a waste incinerator can be designed to recover energy in the form of steam, hot water or electricity...

Optimal Planning of Solid Waste Collection, Recycling and Incineration System

The combustion temperature control for the potential emissions of trace organic compounds during incinera­ tion and the possible decrease of heating values by waste recycling have created a mutually influenced infrastruc­ ture in the current integrated solid waste management sys­ tem. This paper illustrates the problem of the compatibility between waste recycling and incineration by a nonlinear...

Municipal Solid Waste Management using GIS Application in Mirpur Area of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Identifying Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal sites and appropriately managing them is a challenging task to many developing countries like Bangladesh. It is a complex issue in an urban area, as increasing population levels, rapid economic growth and rise in community living standard, accelerates the generation rate of MSW. The study area is zone-2 (Mirpur-Pallabi) of Dhaka North City Corpor...