Municipal solid waste (MSW) is an important energy resource for combined heat and power (CHP) production. This study summarized an overview of CHP by MSW to energy (WtE) plants in South Korea and discussed the issues related to energy efficiency improvement. Given the dominant housing culture of apartment living in South Korea, the primary energy output of WtE plants has been for district heati...

A large amount of paper is recycled in China, that generates a significant amount of sludge and residue during the paper production process. Energy recovery by means of combustion in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants can be a possible candidate for sludge elimination. Currently, two incineration methods, distinguished as either direct incineration of partially dewatered sludge (generally 80% water c...

A technical analysis has been completed for a commercial-scale two-stage gasification-combustion system. The CLEERGAS (Covanta Low Emissions Energy Recovery GASification) process consists of partial combustion and gasification of as-received municipal solid waste (MSW) on a moving grate producing syngas followed by full combustion of the generated syngas in an adjoining chamber and boiler. This...

This report presents some of the results of a study conducted for the New York Academy of Sciences on the sources of past and current emissions of mercury in the Hudson-Raritan basin (HRB), an area of 42,000 square kilometers with a population of fifteen million. Mercury emissions to the atmosphere are reported from all high temperature processes, such as utility, commercial and residential boi...

12th North American Waste to Energy Conference May 17-19,2004, Savannah, Georgia USA NAWTEC12-2210 NEXT-GENERATION WASTE-TO-ENERGY: WILL THERE BE ONE? E. Larry Beaumont, P.E., eco/Technologies, LLC An EnergyAnswers Corporation 79 N. Pearl St. Albany, New York 12207 Phone: (518) 434-1227; Fax (518) 436-6343 e-mail: [email protected] The market for new waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities ...

In District Heating (DH), a large number of buildings are heated from a central source by conveying steam or hot water through a network of insulated pipes. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) signifies the controlled combustion of municipal solid wastes to generate electrical and thermal energy in a power plant. Both technologies have been developed simultaneously and are used widely in Europe. In the Unite...

Rapid economic development and population growth in Malaysia had accelerated the generation of solid waste. This issue gives pressure for effective management of municipal solid waste (MSW) to take place in Malaysia due to the increased cost of landfill. This paper discusses optimal planning of waste-to-energy (WTE) using a combinatorial simulation and optimization model through mixed integer l...

The author is a doctoral student, working under the direction of Prof. Chris Cheeseman in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Imperial College, London. The main subject of his thesis is the transformation of waste-to-energy (WTE) bottom ash to higher value applications. A second subject is the critical analysis of research and development efforts in Europe to advance beneficia...

Owners and operators of waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities have a keen interest in the performance of their facilities since it drives the overall success and cost effectiveness of their projects. There are a number of parameters that are commonly used to gauge the performance of a WTE facility and, in many cases, the contract operator. This paper compares historical data from a number of mass bu...

This paper is based on data compiled in the course of developing, for InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), a WTE Guidebook for managers and policymakers in the Latin America and Caribbean region. As part of this work, a list was compiled of nearly all plants in the world that thermally treat nearly 200 million tons of municipal solid wastes (MSW) and produce electricity and heat. An estimated ...