Environmental Impact of Waste-to-Energy

2017 ◽  
pp. 189-214
Author(s):  
Efstratios N. Kalogirou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste To Energy

Poultry litter as a fuel

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.P. Dagnall
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Poultry Litter ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Direct Use

In the UK about 1.4 million tonnes of used poultry litter are produced each year. Its disposal by direct use as a fertilizer or by landfill can, in some circumstances, have an adverse environmental impact. Waste-to-energy schemes which generate revenue from the energy produced and may provide fertilizer as a valuable byproduct offer an alternative and environmentally acceptable means of disposal.

Mini-review of waste-to-energy related air pollution and their limit value regulations in an international comparison

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110606
Author(s):  
Isla Hodgkinson ◽  
Roman Maletz ◽  
Franz-Georg Simon ◽  
Christina Dornack
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Incineration ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Best Available Technologies ◽  
Limit Value ◽  
Anthropogenic Processes ◽  
India And China

The concept of circular economy supports mitigation of climate change and other environmental pressures to the planet. Circulating materials in anthropogenic processes come with the risk of accumulating hazardous substances and compounds. In this concept, waste incineration or waste-to-energy (WtE) is a necessary technology to remove these compounds from the life cycle. In this mini-review, contaminants of major importance in the flue gas from waste incineration plants and their environmental impact are discussed. Air pollution of WtE is often seen as the most relevant environmental impact of this treatment option. The emission values parameter set for different countries is presented and compared. The most stringent legally set of emission values could be found in parts of Europe and South Korea. Japan also permits similar strict values when authorising individual incineration plants. In North America, the values are partially less strict as the best available technologies in Europe suggest being possible. Emerging economies, such as India and China, have shown efforts to improve their environmental protection standards but still have room to improve. This could be set in relation to other industrial emitting processes and therefore could be used to assess the relevance of this industry sector to the national emission inventories.

scholarly journals ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF WASTE-TO-ENERGY IN MALAYSIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
AM. Faizal ◽  
Y. H. Wardah ◽  
M. A. Husna ◽  
A. Amirah ◽  
Y. H. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste To Energy

Energetic and Environmental Analysis of a New Cogenerative Configuration for the Waste to Energy Plant of Piacenza

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo De Servi ◽  
Lucia Rigamonti ◽  
Stefano Consonni
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Back Pressure ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment Methodology ◽  
Energy Plant

This study aims at estimating the energy and environmental performances of a new cogenerative configuration of the waste to energy (WTE) plant in Piacenza. At present, the plant is authorized to treat 120,000 t/y of waste, but this limit does not represent the full treatment capacity of the facility. To exploit the plant potential and, at the same time, to reduce total equivalent emissions of the WTE process, a cogenerative configuration has been proposed. In this new scenario a back pressure turbine would be installed in parallel to the existing one, in order to supply heat to the district heating network of Piacenza and the total amount of waste treated per year by the facility would be increased to 134,100 t. The increase of 14,100 t should be satisfied by industrial and commercial waste, which would otherwise go to landfill. To compare the cogenerative scenario with the current situation, the environmental impact for the two cases has been evaluated by means of a life cycle assessment methodology. The results of the analysis show that the new configuration can ensure significant energy and environmental benefits.

Environmental impact and economic sustainability analysis of a novel anaerobic digestion waste-to-energy pilot plant in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (25) ◽  
pp. 26404-26417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizwan Rasheed ◽  
Abdullah Yasar ◽  
Yubo Wang ◽  
Amtul Bari Tabinda ◽  
Sajid Rashid Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Analysis

Environmental Impact Assessment of an Anaerobic Codigestion System in Western New York State

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Rankin ◽  
Thomas A. Trabold ◽  
Robert Blythe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
New York State ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
York State ◽  
Anaerobic Codigestion

Anaerobic codigestion of dairy manure and food-based feedstocks reflects a cradle-to-cradle approach to organic waste management. Given both of their abundance throughout New York State, waste-to-energy processes represent promising waste management strategies. The existing waste-to-energy literature has not yet fully realized the environmental impacts associated with displaced grid electricity generation and feedstock-hauling emissions on the net environmental impact of centralized codigestion facilities. The key objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive environmental impact assessment with the purpose of understanding the existing environmental status of centralized codigestion facilities. Real-time data from an operational codigestion facility located in Western New York State was used to conduct this environmental impact statement. A comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions associated with renewable electricity production at the codigestion facility was developed using the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) (U.S. EPA), while emissions associated with feedstock hauling were quantified using the fuel life-cycle approach developed by the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation model (GREET) (U.S. DOE). With each of the emissions models used for this analysis, it was determined that the net environmental impact associated with hauling food-related feedstocks from the many locations throughout the Northeast U.S. region would be acceptably low, and thus could be part of future sustainable development of centralized codigestion facilities.

Waste to energy – An evaluation of the environmental impact

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (16) ◽  
pp. 2326-2332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Pavlas ◽  
Michal Touš ◽  
Ladislav Bébar ◽  
Petr Stehlík
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste To Energy
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