Hydrogen of a high purity can be produced from the advanced gasification nonrecyclable mixed plastic wastes (MPW). Due to fossil nature MPW, carbon capture and storage (CCS) capabilities need employed for process considered low-carbon hydrogen production route. This study analyzes environmental performance semicommercial that (a) provides an end-of-life (EoL) (b) produces as main product (for s...

This report presents the results of a study that examined alternatives to landfilling the municipal solid wastes (MSW) of New York City. Detailed characterization of the wastes led to their classification, according to materials properties and inherent value, to “recyclable”, compostable”, “combustible”, and “landfillable”. The results showed that the present rates of recycling (16.6%) and comb...

The impact of the emissions from a municipal Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Northern Italy on local air quality was assessed using CALMET-CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion modelling system. Model simulations were based hourly emission rates measured by continuous stack monitoring systems and considered both quality-regulated pollutants (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, toxic elements, benzo(a)...

Regarding the bridging of existing gap around economic assessment waste-to-energy (WTE) conversion technologies in Pakistan, this study performs a techno-economic energy generation through both thermal and biochemical processes. The levelized cost electricity (LCOE) serves as fundamental parameter for analyzing viability these processes their comparison with other Based on results, essential co...

Inadequate disposal of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is one the greatest environmental issues confronted nowadays. One techniques used for its final incineration, otherwise known as mass burning. Although this procedure remains very controversial in Brazil, some recent studies published Europe reveal a large amount misinformation about it. It has been widely European countries, Japan, and few U.S...

Flow, mixing, and, size segregation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) particles on the traveling grate of a mass-burn waste-to-energy (WTE) combustion chamber is analyzed for understanding those parameters that control the combustion processes and for designing the chamber. In order to quantify these phenomena, a full-scale physical model of the reverse acting grate was built and used for investig...

Diverse opportunities and environmental impacts could occur from a potential move towards waste-to-energy (WtE) systems for electricity generation municipal solid waste (MSW) in Lagos Abuja, Nigeria. Given this, the purpose of this study is to use life cycle assessment (LCA) as primary analytical approach order undertake comparative analysis an impact perspective different WtE scenarios, along ...

Waste management and electricity supply have always been among the main challenges faced by developing countries. So far, use of waste to energy (WtE) is one strategy that could simultaneously address these two challenges. However, such technologies requires detailed studies ensure their sustainability. In this paper, potential WtE in cities Nigeria (Abuja Lagos) using anaerobic digestion (AD),...

Though the magnitude of organic-rich agri-food waste arisings from open-air markets in many sub-Saharan Africa cities such as Kampala, Uganda are largely unknown, predominant approaches to managing them, i.e., open burning and unsanitary landfilling, unsustainable, emitting greenhouse gases, represent an inefficient use their intrinsic compositional energy value. This study combined waste-to-en...