Waste management is an important issue to solve as the assimilative capacity of the biosphere becomes overloaded by human needs and activities. According to European guidelines, reduction of waste generation and recovery of energy and materials are strongly recommended for environmentally sound waste management. In order to adopt a long-term sustainable strategy, it is necessary to assess the v...

Waste refineries focusing on multiple outputs of material resources, energy carriers, and nutrients may potentially provide more sustainable utilization of waste resources than traditional waste technologies. This consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluated the environmental performance of a Danish waste refinery solution against state-of-the-art waste technology alternatives (incinerat...

A technology assessment of thermal treatment technologies was carried out in the form of scenarios of chains of technologies. The Swedish tool, ORWARE was used for the assessment. The scenarios of chains of thermal technologies assessed were gasification with catalytic combustion, gasification with flame combustion, incineration and landfilling. The landfilling scenario was used a reference for...

In this edition of the Journal of Hospital Infection, Kanemitsu et al. report their findings from laboratory studies intended to evaluate the efficacy of incineration as a method for sterilization of clinical wastes. High-temperature incineration is regarded as a wholly effective ‘gold standard’ method for the sterilization of wastes, although few attempts have been made to obtain ‘proof of pro...

The aim of the study is to analyze three different waste treatment technologies by life cycle assessment tool. Sanitary Landfill, Incineration and gasification-pyrolysis of the waste treatment technologies are studied in SimaPro software based on input-output materials flow. SimaPro software has been applied for analyzing environmental burden by different impact categories. All technologies are...

An environmental assessment of six scenarios for handling of garden waste in the Municipality of Aarhus (Denmark) was performed from a life cycle perspective by means of the LCA-model EASEWASTE. In the first (baseline) scenario, the current garden waste management system based on windrow composting was assessed, while in the other five scenarios alternative solutions including incineration and ...

Controlled low-strength material (CLSM) is slurry made by mixing sand, cement, ash, and water. It is primarily used as a replacement for soil and structural fillings. This paper presents the findings of a preliminary investigation carried out on the performance of industrial waste incineration bottom ash as CLSM. CLSM mixes were designed using industrial waste incineration bottom ash, and cemen...

T HAS BEEN OUR EXPERIENCE (1) that accurate measurement on large numbers of samples in a minimum amount of working time per specimen can be achieved consistently in the analysis of protein-bound iodine by means of alkaline incineration. However, with the use of incineration, where many samples may be exposed simultaneously in enclosed spaces such as centrifuges, drying ovens, and muffle furnace...

The aim of this study is to use the life cycle assessment method to measure the environmental performance of the sludge incineration process in a wastewater treatment plant and to propose an alternative that can reduce the environmental impact. To show the damages caused by the treatment processes, the study aimed to use an endpoint approach in evaluating impacts on human health, ecosystem qual...

Hazardous wastes from various industrial processes are normally incinerated with rotary kilns in order to comply with current environmental regulations. They have often very complicated chemical compositions in a variety of physical forms and difficult to characterise. The complex transport phenomena within the incinerator are not well understood, and the incineration process expects large unce...