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Sanderson, John. "Waste to energy." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 126, no. 2 (2014): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs14032.

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Rising energy costs, increasing landfill prices and the environmental imperative to reduce atmospheric emissions of fossil CO2 are all compelling medium and large energy users throughout Australia to consider decentralised onsite power generation options. In addition to the rollout of household and community-scale photovoltaic (PV) and wind, waste-to-energy technologies such as landfill gas and biogas-based power plant are now well established in Australia. However, various other waste-to-energy technologies, operating elsewhere, have yet to take off. This presentation provided an overview of waste to- energy processes, including examples of currently operating commercial processes as well as recent research to highlight the interesting mix of processes and economics that make up the waste-to-energy landscape.
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Pavlas, Martin, Jan Dvořáček, Thorsten Pitschke, and René Peche. "Biowaste Treatment and Waste-To-Energy—Environmental Benefits." Energies 13, no. 8 (April 17, 2020): 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13081994.

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Biowaste represents a significant fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW). Its separate collection is considered as a useful measure to enhance waste management systems in both the developed and developing world. This paper aims to compare the environmental performance of three market-ready technologies currently used to treat biowaste—biowaste composting, fermentation, and biowaste incineration in waste-to-energy (WtE) plants as a component of residual municipal solid waste (RES). Global warming potential (GWP) was applied as an indicator and burdens related to the operation of facilities and credits obtained through the products were identified. The environmental performance of a WtE plant was investigated in detail using a model, implementing an approach similar to marginal-cost and revenues, which is a concept widely applied in economics. The results show that all of the treatment options offer an environmentally friendly treatment (their net GWP is negative). The environmental performance of a WtE plant is profoundly affected by its mode of its operation, i.e., type of energy exported. The concept producing environmental credits at the highest rate is co-incineration of biowaste in a strictly heat-oriented WtE plant. Anaerobic digestion plants treating biowaste by fermentation produce fewer credits, but approximately twice as more credits as WtE plants with power delivery only.
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Cucchiella, Federica, Idiano D’Adamo, and Massimo Gastaldi. "Sustainable waste management: Waste to energy plant as an alternative to landfill." Energy Conversion and Management 131 (January 2017): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.11.012.

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Sihite, A., ST Kasim, and F. Fahmi. "Waste power plant: waste to energy study in Medan city area." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 801 (June 3, 2020): 012065. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/801/1/012065.

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Wilson, D. G., E. F. Saba, R. Y. Nuwayhid, and D. Hamrin. "A Waste-to-Energy Recycling Plant for Beirut." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 209, no. 1 (February 1995): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/pime_proc_1995_209_010_02.

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Mendecka, B., L. Lombardi, and Pawel Gladysz. "Waste to energy efficiency improvements: Integration with solar thermal energy." Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 37, no. 4 (March 8, 2019): 419–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242x19833159.

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Hybridisation of waste to energy with solar facility can take competing energy technologies and make them complementary. However, realising the benefits of solar integration requires careful consideration of the technical feasibility as well as the economic and environmental benefits of a proposed system. In this work, a solar-integrated waste-to-energy plant scheme is proposed and analysed from an energy, environmental and economic point of view. The new system integrates a traditional waste-to-energy plant with a concentrated solar power plant, by superheating the steam produced by the waste-to-energy flue gas boiler in the solar facility. The original waste-to-energy plant – that is, the base case before introducing the integration with concentrated solar power – has a thermal power input of 50 MW and operates with superheated steam at 40 bar and 400 °C; net power output is 10.7 MW, and the net energy efficiency is equal to 21.65%. By combining waste-to-energy plant with the solar facility, the power plant could provide higher net efficiency (from 1.4 to 3.7 p.p. higher), lower specific CO2 emissions (from 69 to 180 kg MWh-1 lower) and lower levellised cost of electricity (from 13.4 to 42.3 EUR MWh-1 lower) comparing with the standalone waste to energy case. The study shows that: (i) in the integrated case and for the increasing steam parameters energy, economic and ecological performances are improved; (ii) increasing the solar contribution could be an efficient way to improve the process and system performances. In general, we can conclude that concentrated solar-power technology holds significant promise for extending and developing the waste to energy systems.
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Singh, H., T. S. Sidhu, and S. B. S. Kalsi. "Scarcity of Energy and Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant: A Review." i-manager's Journal on Mechanical Engineering 1, no. 1 (January 15, 2011): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jme.1.1.1211.

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Cucchiella, Federica, and Idiano D’Adamo. "WASTE TO ENERGY PLANT AS AN ENERGY RENEWABLE SOURCE: FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY." JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 13, no. 1 (December 23, 2015): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/hm013010093.

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Putna, Ondřej, František Janošťák, and Martin Pavlas. "Greenhouse gas credits from integrated waste-to-energy plant." Journal of Cleaner Production 270 (October 2020): 122408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122408.

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Mendecka, Barbara, and Lidia Lombardi. "Environmental evaluation of Waste to Energy plant coupled with concentrated solar energy." Energy Procedia 148 (August 2018): 162–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2018.08.045.

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Karlsson, Linus, and Jönsson Thomas Linderholm. "Pre-feasibility Study of a Waste to Energy Plant in Chisinau, Moldova." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-170234.

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The thesis outlined in this report has been done as a sub-project in cooperation between the municipalities Borlänge in Sweden and Chisinau in Moldova. The project aimed to explore the region's economic and environmental opportunities for waste incineration with energy recovery, also known as Waste to Energy. At present, the solution to the waste situation is unmonitored landfills with smaller sorting operations. Environmentally, this is a poor solution and although there are plans for change, no specific strategy has been presented. Another important issue is Moldova's dependence on foreign produced energy. The country's energy system is dependent on imported natural gas, and only a small part of the country's electrical energy is produced domestically. What makes the waste to energy so interesting for this region is that it contributes to an improvement in both of these issues by using the waste as fuel to reduce energy dependency. The study has been done without specific waste composition data for the Chisinau region. With this in mind a dynamic model in several steps has been made, designed to obtain new results depending on what waste composition is specified. The results of this study show that implementation of a waste incineration plant in the Chisinau energy system is economically and environmentally feasible, given the current conditions. The proposed plant is designed to annually handle 400,000 tonnes of waste, and would with the assumed waste composition deliver 560 GWh of district heat and 260 GWh of electric energy. This production provides an annual profit of 31.6 M €, which gives a positive net present value after the project amortization. Compared with the city's current solution with landfills and gas turbines, the project also provides a significant environmental improvement. During the plant's design lifetime, greenhouse gas emissions are 53.9%, and only 6.8% with the assumption that only a portion of the carbon content of the waste is of fossil origin.
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Cerra, Noemi. "An Energy Management Oriented Analysis: Case Study of a Waste to Energy Plant in Lecco, Italy." Thesis, KTH, Kraft- och värmeteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-250665.

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The ISO 50001 standard on energy management systems was released in 2011 with the aim of providing organizations with a standardised guideline for the evaluation and continual improvement of energy performance. Complex structures such as the waste to energy (WTE) sector, which must comply with social, environmental, economic and productivity objectives, can benefit from the development of a compliant energy management system (EnMS). Energy efficiency and energy savings contribute to the mitigation of the heavy cost of such a facility, while the benchmark analysis allows verifying the state of the system and the potential areas for improvement. The energy performance improvements can be valorised on an environmental base, and proper promotion of the process can contribute to the mitigation of social opposition. This thesis reviews the energy performance of a waste to energy facility located in Lecco, Italy, using the information available from the control system already installed in the company. Regression analysis is used to fit linear and polynomial functional forms to the energy consumption data and create the energy baseline for the areas of significant energy use and production with a predictive power of 59 – 92%. The difference among the baseline and the actual energy consumption is proposed as energy performance indicator, in order to appreciate the results of the improvement opportunities, and a set of key performance indicators are evaluated for internal and external benchmarking of the facility. The economic feasibility of a selection of sectorial Best Available Technologies (BATs) and the related energy performance improvement is evaluated, revealing that 2 – 16 M€ can be invested in the system retrofit; the creation of synergies with the facility heating, cooling and electricity demand is also suggested. Lastly, an energy, economic and environmental analysis is suggested as a ranking system for the identified improvement opportunities. The methodology and results of this study are intended to provide a proper energy review for Silea Spa, suggest a review procedure for other WTE facilities willing to develop a compliant EnMS and enrich the literature with a case study on WTE. For the Italian context, which is currently facing difficulties in the modernization of the waste management system (WMS), the ISO 50001 application on WTE facilities offers a unified structure that can be used by the government to map the current status of each facility and develop the legislative framework in accordance to the needs of the WMS, the circular economy and the public opinion.
ISO 50001-standarden för energihanteringssystem släpptes 2011 för att ge organisationer en standardiserad riktlinje för utvärdering och kontinuerlig förbättring av energiprestanda. Komplexa strukturer som sektorn för avfall till energi (WTE), som måste uppfylla målen socialt, miljömässigt, ekonomiskt och produktivt, kan dra nytta av utvecklingen av ett kompatibelt energihanteringssystem (EnMS). Energieffektivitet och energibesparingar bidrar till att mildra den stora kostnaden för en sådan anläggning, medan jämförelseanalysen gör det möjligt att verifiera systemets tillstånd och de potentiella förbättringsområdena. Förbättringen av energiprestanda kan värderas på en miljöbas, och en korrekt främjande av processen kan bidra till att mildra social opposition. Denna avhandling granskar energiprestanda för ett slöseri till en energianläggning i Lecco, Italien, med hjälp av den information som finns tillgänglig från det styrsystem som redan är installerat i företaget. Regressionsanalys används för att passa linjära och polynomiska funktionsformer till energiförbrukningsdata och skapa energigrundnivå för områdena med betydande energianvändning och produktion med en prediktiv effekt på 59-92%. Skillnaden mellan baslinjen och den faktiska energiförbrukningen föreslås som indikator för energiprestanda för att uppskatta resultaten av förbättringsmöjligheterna och en uppsättning nyckelresultatindikatorer utvärderas för intern och extern riktmärkning av anläggningen. Den ekonomiska möjligheten för ett urval av sektorns bästa tillgängliga teknik (BAT) och den därmed sammanhängande förbättringen av energieffektiviteten utvärderas, vilket visar att 2 - 16 miljoner euro kan investeras i systemets eftermontering. skapandet av synergier med anläggningens uppvärmning, kylning och el efterfrågan föreslås också. Slutligen föreslås en energi-, ekonomisk och miljöanalys som ett rankningssystem för de identifierade förbättringsmöjligheterna. Metoden och resultaten av denna studie är avsedda att ge en ordentlig energianalyse för Silea Spa, föreslå ett granskningsförfarande för andra WTE-anläggningar som är villiga att utveckla en kompatibel ENMS och berika litteraturen med en fallstudie om WTE. För det italienska sammanhanget, som för närvarande står inför svårigheter i moderniseringen av avfallshanteringssystemet (WMS), erbjuder ISO 50001-tillämpningen på WTE-anläggningar en enhetlig struktur som kan användas av regeringen för att kartlägga nuvarande status för varje anläggning och utveckla den rättsliga ramen i enlighet med WMS, den cirkulära ekonomins och den allmänna opinionens behov.
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Bardi, Silvia. "Modelling and control of a waste to energy plant : waste bed temperature control using a feedback control law." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/5632.

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In this dissertation the waste incineration process has been described, an overview of the state of the art control methodologies given and a new approach, based on input/output linearization and extremum seeking has been presented. This approach has been tested on a model appositely designed. The results have shown that it is possible to control the waste bed temperature to certain reference values, with robustness against changes in the waste composition. It is furthermore possible to identify reference values for the waste bed temperature such as the steam ow rate is maximized, while at the same time fulfilling operational constraints.
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Muratori, Giacomo. "Application of multivariate statistical methods to the modelling of a flue gas treatment stage in a waste-to-energy plant." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17262/.

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Among all the flue gas components produced in waste-to-energy plants, acid airborne pollutants such as SO2 and HCl have the most rigorous emission standards provided by the European Parliament. Their removal is thus a key step of the flue gas treatment which is mainly achieved with the Dry Treatment Systems (DTS), technologies based on the direct injection of dry solid sorbents which is capable to subtract the acid from the gas stream with several important advantages and high removal efficiencies. However, the substantial lack of a deeper industrial knowledge makes difficult to determine accurately an optimal operating zone which should be required for the design and operation of these systems. The aim of this study has been therefore the exploration, while basing on an essential engineering expertise, of some of the possible solutions which the application of multivariate statistical methods on process data obtained from real plants can give in order to identify all those phenomena which rule dry treatment systems. In particular, a key task of this work has been the seeking for a general procedure which can be possibly applied for the characterization of any type of DTS system, regardless of the specific duty range or design configuration. This required to overcome the simple mechanical application of the available techniques and made necessary to tailor and even redefine some of the available standard procedures in order to guarantee specific and objective results for the studied case. Specifically, in this so called chemometric analysis, after a pre-treatment and quality assessment, the process data obtained from a real working plant was analyzed with basic and advanced techniques in order to characterize the relations among all the available variables. Then, starting from the results of the data analysis, a linear model has been produced in order to be employed to predict with a certain grade of accuracy the operating conditions of the system.
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CARNEIRO, MARIA LUISA NERYS DE MORAES. "ENVIRONMENTAL AND THERMOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A WASTE-TO-ENERGY FACILITY: CASE STUDY OF ZABALGARBI/BILBAO PLANT ADAPTED TO THE BRAZILIAN REALITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26682@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
A disposição final de resíduos sólidos urbanos, em aterros ou lixões, é um problema das grandes cidades. A utilização do lixo urbano em processos de tratamento térmico com recuperação energética vem ao encontro da busca de fontes alternativas, preferencialmente as renováveis, para a geração de energia. Assim, usinas de incineração com reaproveitamento de energia vêm sendo apresentadas como uma solução tanto para o destino do lixo quanto para a diversificação da matriz energética. Além disso, a prática da incineração proporciona máxima redução da massa e volume e inertização do lixo, estando o aproveitamento energético de resíduos (Waste-to-Energy) dentre as alternativas mais coerentes para a gestão de resíduos sólidos municipais. No Brasil, práticas como esta ainda são incipientes, porém apresentam grande potencial de estudo para aplicações nos centros urbanos em um futuro próximo. O presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta de uma usina lixo-energia, aplicável ao município do Rio de Janeiro, baseada na planta de Zabalgarbi/Bilbao (Espanha), que funciona em ciclo combinado a gás natural e incinera resíduos, aproveitando seu conteúdo energético para produzir eletricidade. Uma análise energética e exergética é realizada juntamente com uma estimativa do custo de geração de eletricidade, influenciada por um indicador de ecoeficiência que leva em consideração as emissões atmosféricas. Como conclusão, mostra-se a capacidade do sistema proposto em destinar os resíduos sólidos urbanos e atender a demanda elétrica do município do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil a um custo competitivo.
The final disposal of municipal solid waste in landfills or dumps is a regular problem to the big cities. The use of municipal waste in processes of thermal treatment with energy recovery meets the search for alternative and renewable sources of energy production. Thus, energy recovery incineration facilities are being presented as a solution to both the waste disposal problem and the growing energy demand in the cities. Additionally, incineration provides the maximum reduction of mass, volume and dangerousness of the waste and the waste-to-energy practice stands out among the most coherent alternatives for municipal solid waste management in the world. In Brazil, however, it is still incipient and therefore presents a great potential for feasibility and application studies in the urban centers. This work presents a proposal of a waste-to-energy facility that could operate in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), based on the Zabalgarbi/Bilbao (Spain) plant, which operates in combined cycle fueled by natural gas and urban solid waste and generates electrical power. It is performed an energetic and exergetic analysis along with a cost estimate influenced by an eco-efficiency indicator that takes into account the air pollution emissions. The conclusion shows the capacity of the proposed facility to treat the municipal solid waste of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and supply its electricity demand with a competitive cost.
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Wagner, Manuela. "Industrial Pilot Scale Leaching and Recovery of Zinc from Waste-to-Energy Fly Ash using Scrubber Liquids." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10348.

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Previous studies from laboratory experiments and a similar process at a plant in Switzerland, led to the pilot plant project at Renova AB, which will be described in this master thesis. In cooperation with Götaverken Miljö AB it was investigated if fly ash, produced at the Renova Waste-to-Energy plant in Gothenburg, could be treated with own scrubber liquids in order to recover zinc. If successful, Renova might build this tested pilot process in to a big scale. The pilot plant has a scale of 16 times smaller than a future big scale process. The goal of the project is to leach zinc from fly ash and gain a fly ash residue, which is classified as non-hazardous waste. The filtrate from the leaching campaign is treated so that the containing zinc is recovered. The zinc cake end product shall has a quality so that it can be sold to other industries or upgraded to high purity zinc metal. The evaluation of the experiments showed that the pilot plant process was successful. It was possible to leach out zinc by a maximum quote of 74%. The total recovery of zinc could be achieved by a maximum of 72%. The final zinc cake product was achieved through a precipitation and filtration campaign. This thesis evaluates, which process set-ups for zinc recovery through leaching and precipitation & filtration are the best and can be recommended for a big scale process. In addition, it briefly analyses the zinc product quality. Future studies will be necessary within: cost analysis of the process, zinc product quality and an analysis of the ash residue.
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Kohl, Ulrik. "The Copenhill Crisis. The Dark Side of Planning The Greenest Waste-fired Power Plant Ever Seen." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21591.

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This thesis is about the making of a power plant. It sheds light on how neoliberal ideas shape large public investments in sustainable energy infrastructure. It tells the story of how the City of Copenhagen decided to build what was claimed to be the greenest waste-fired power plant in the world: Copenhill. The plant was to have a ski slope at the rooftop and a chimney puffing smoke-rings. However, conflicting urban visions and rationalities led to a year-long crisis in the project’s planning phase. In the end, Copenhill was built over capacity, which today makes it difficult to match budget and costs. I combined information from internal municipal documents, interviews with decision makers and informal corridor talk to identify the driving forces behind the outcome of the crisis, and the contradictions and complexities of the case. I found that the crisis had roots in the way the public energy company ARC began to act like a private firm, with an entrepreneurial vision. ARC adopted an expansionist growth plan to build a large power plant with iconic architecture. The Copenhill project attracted local politicians wishing to brand Copenhagen as a green world city. However, the city’s Technical and Environmental Administration (TEA) was guided by a managerial vision with a strong sustainability focus. TEA’s analysis showed that there would not be enough garbage in the city to power the over-sized plant. Consequences for economy and environment were seen as potentially disastrous. Supported by city council and government, TEA tried to stop Copenhill. The clash between the two different urban visions led to the formation of two opposing coalitions with each their own rationality. The contradictions between growth rationality and green rationality caused the Copenhill Crisis. The direct intervention of the power élite in support of a growth solution short-circuited the norms of transparent public decision-making. Bowing to political pressure, TEA produced new documents saying that Copenhill would be great for economy and climate. Dark planning practices led to an outcome that was falsely presented as a compromise between green and growth strategies. It was in fact a growth solution, wrapped in green arguments that were not rational. The case study supports a key proposition in theory on the dark side of planning: that rationality is context-dependent and that the context of rationality is power. The case study adds insights to theory by showing the ways neoliberal thought merges with existing socio-economic conditions in space and time, specifically within a Nordic welfare-state context. It shows how public energy companies can face challenges, not only from neoliberal-driven privatization attempts, but also from ideas of iconicity and city marketing. The case study reaffirms the strength of a Flyvbjergian approach to understand the effects of hidden power mechanisms on planning of public energy infrastructure.
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Šomplák, Radovan. "Efektivní plánování investic do technologií pro energetické využití odpadů." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240797.

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PhD thesis deals with the application of the simulation and optimization methods in the waste-to-energy field. An introduction describes the current state of the waste management in the EU with the focus on the Czech Republic. In the following chapter the evaluation criteria for investment intentions and the basic principles of stochastic programming are discussed. The core of the work lays in the mathematical models for the planning and operation of the process plants as well as in the mathematical models for the waste collection. The transportation problem involves all considered technological elements and therefore it is possible to simulate the waste streams between the producers and processors. This approach is demonstrated with five case studies. In the first three studies the calculations for the potential investor are presented. The main outcome of these case studies is the determination of the level of attractiveness of investment and the identification the greatest risks. Another case study is devoted to an analysis with the focus on perspective of government policies and in the last case study the issue of the waste management is analyzed in detail from the perspective of the waste producers. Developed computational tools are flexible and can be further developed and adapted based on the objectives of the specific tasks.
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Putna, Ondřej. "Uplatnění zařízení pro energetické využití odpadů malých zpracovatelských kapacit v podmínkách ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-230812.

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The diploma thesis is focused on the evaluation of small-scale waste to energy plants in the Czech Republic. In the first part, there is a survey of the corresponding literature and general evaluation of the specificities of these plants. The next section analyzes the technical and economic indicators of a specific technology by Microsoft Excel model. Finally, recommendations for small-scale waste to energy plants arising from the model are summarized.
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Šomplák, Radovan. "Využití metod stochastického programování pro hodnocení investic v energetických zdrojích." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-229821.

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This thesis deals with the evaluation of the strategic investment in the waste-to-energy plant development. The central supply of heat and the incineration plant connection can be provided for example by the distribution network. The objective is to find financially feasible solution regarding uncertain development of waste management and energy market. A heat supplies to district heating network significantly influences the strategic decision. A two-stage stochastic programming based on the scenarios and the GAMS software were applied to solve this task. The main contribution of this thesis is decision on crucial parameters of the waste-to-energy plant.
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Books on the topic "Waste-to-energy plant"

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Environment, Citizens for a. Save. A submission to the Ontario Cabinet respecting TSI Trintek's proposed energy from waste plant. Toronto: C.S.E., 1987.

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Office, United States Government Accountability. Hanford waste treatment plant: Department of Energy needs to strengthen controls over contractor payments and project assets : report to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2007.

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Office, General Accounting. Nuclear waste: Challenges to achieving potential savings in DOE's high-level waste cleanup program : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050 Washington 20013): U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. Proposals relating to the operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico: Oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... hearing held in Washington, DC, April 16, 1991. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act of 1991: Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on S. 1671 to withdraw certain public lands ... in Eddy County, New Mexico ... Albuquerque, NM, September 21, 1991. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.

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Affairs, United States Congress House Committee on Interior and Insular. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 2637 which ... was referred jointly to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on Armed Services) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act of 1988: Report (to accompany H.R. 2504 ... May 21, 1987, was referred jointly to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and the Committee on Armed Services) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1988.

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Office, General Accounting. Nuclear waste: Uncertainties about opening Waste Isolation Pilot Plant : report to Congressional requesters. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1996.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act of 1987: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session, on S.1272 to withdraw certain public lands in Eddy County, New Mexico : Carlsbad, NM, October 12, 1987. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1988.

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Office, General Accounting. Nuclear waste: Unresolved issues concerning Hanford's waste management practices : report to Congressional requesters. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Waste-to-energy plant"

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Ludwig, Paul. "Waste to Energy IFBC-Plant in Frankfurt, Germany." In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, 1022–27. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02682-9_159.

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Kornau, Jasmin, and Henning Albers. "Modeling Waste Characteristics and WtE Plants as a Tool for Optimum Operation Conditions." In Waste to Energy, 83–105. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2306-4_4.

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Rodrigues, Cristóvão, Ana Cristina Rodrigues, Cândida Vilarinho, Madalena Alves, and Joaquim Mamede Alonso. "Spatial Multicriteria GIS-Based Analysis to Anaerobic Biogas Plant Location for Dairy Waste and Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery (Barcelos, NW Portugal)." In Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, 626–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91334-6_85.

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Colarossi, Daniele, and Paolo Principi. "Feasibility study of a cold ironing system and district heating in port area." In Proceedings e report, 666–75. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.66.

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Cold ironing is a technology to reduce polluting emissions covering the energy demand of berthed ships in port to shut down their auxiliary engines. A feasibility study for the port of Ancona is proposed. A cogeneration plant provides electricity to ships, and the recovered heat waste is used in a district heating network. Results show that a 1.5MW and 2MW cogenerator covers 83% and 92% of the electrical need of ships respectively, and 61% and 74% of the thermal need of the involved buildings over the analysed period. The scenarios have been economically evaluated and prove to be feasible.
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van Berlo, M. A. J. "Waste-to-Energy Facilities waste-to-energy (WTE) facility as Power Plants waste-to-energy (WTE) facility as power plants." In Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, 11758–67. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_399.

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van Berlo, M. A. J. "Waste-to-Energy Facilities waste-to-energy (WTE) facility as Power Plants waste-to-energy (WTE) facility as power plants." In Renewable Energy Systems, 1532–41. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5820-3_399.

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Bellanca, Nicolò, and Luca Pardi. "Risorse e popolazione umana." In Studi e saggi, 21–45. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.06.

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The history of the genus Homo, and of the sapiens species in particular, is different from that of other species due to the extreme importance of cultural evolution compared to biological evolution. But from the discovery of how to use fire and generate it, up to the invention of the steam engine, man essentially lives, like the other organisms of the biosphere, on the energy flow guaranteed by solar radiation. With the encounter between machines and fossil fuels and the entry into the era of engines, the rules of the game change radically, and the activities of Homo sapiens change in extent and intensity, in such a way as to progressively reduce the living space of all other animal and plant species, except for the allied and commensal ones. The global industrialized society arising from the meeting between machines and fossil sources is presently facing two fundamental difficulties: the gradual saturation of terrestrial ecosystems with the waste of social and economic metabolism, and the finiteness of fossil energy sources, which are not easy replacement due to their special chemical-physical properties.
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Cigolotti, Viviana, Robert Steinberger-Wilckens, Stephen J. McPhail, and Hary Devianto. "High-Temperature Fuel Cell Plants and Applications." In Fuel Cells in the Waste-to-Energy Chain, 145–62. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2369-9_9.

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Massi, Erica, Hary Devianto, and Katia Gallucci. "Digesters, Gasifiers and Biorefineries: Plants and Field Demonstration." In Fuel Cells in the Waste-to-Energy Chain, 81–94. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2369-9_5.

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Venkatachalapathy, Girish, and Girisha Shiringala Thimappa. "Waste to Energy: A Means of Sustainable Development through Bioethanol Production." In Biofuel from Microbes and Plants, 43–63. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429262975-3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Waste-to-energy plant"

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Mitchell, Floyd L. "Waste to Energy Plant Engineered Solutions." In 9th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec9-110.

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Abstract This paper has been prepared to encourage communication between plant operators who have developed “in plant’ solutions to various problems encountered in waste-to-energy plants. Solutions presented include reciprocating grate designs, dry ash chute designs, ash water reuse clarification system, ash extractor level controls, easy access doors, and water clarification systems. Each problem is presented with solution(s) for each of the problems. A contact is provided for each solution for additional information.
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Shu, Abraham. "Technical Challenges and Abatements of a Mass Burn Waste-to-Energy Plant Co-Incinerating Municipal Solid Waste and Industrial Waste." In 12th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec12-2226.

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The application of mass burn waste-to-energy (WTE) plants is becoming more popular in Asia, not just for proper disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) like most plants in the western world do but stretched by many Asian plants to co-incinerate non-hazardous industrial waste (IW) in order to maximize the use of the plant facilities, hence to save costs from building facilities specifically for treating IW. As the plants are designed with conventional considerations practiced in the western world and the original designs are not oriented towards co-incinerating large percentages of IW, plant operators frequently face challenges such as unstable combustion quality, frequent boiler tube rupture amplified by co-incineration, inadequacy of the conventional control systems and other facilities to handle the co-incineration application. One co-incineration WTE plant in Taiwan is used as an example to illustrate the significance of these challenges, some measures taken to abate the problems and the cost impacts. Suggestions are also provided for technical management of co-incineration plants.
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Klein, Alexander, Hanwei Zhang, and Nickolas J. Themelis. "A Waste-to-Energy Power Plant With CO2 Sequestration." In 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec11-1694.

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This paper assesses the technical and economic feasibility of a novel idea: Reducing the emission of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas contributing to global warming, by combusting solid wastes with industrial oxygen mixed with recirculated flue gas. The process gas, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide, would be compressed and used in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) projects. By using municipal and other organic wastes that are currently landfilled as a fuel and sequestering the carbon dioxide product of combustion underground, such a process would provide the maximum environmental advantages possible, by producing electricity renewably without emitting greenhouse gases. The results of this preliminary analysis indicate that this may be a good opportunity to reduce carbon emissions at a lower cost than other methods of carbon sequestration.
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Lakowski, Leo, Russ Anderson, Ron Richter, Marcel D. Berz, Michael L. Britt, and John F. La Fond. "Power Generation and Superheater Upgrade Project at the Burnaby MSW Plant." In 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec11-1666.

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Montenay Inc. operates a municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerator plant located in Burnaby, British Columbia. The facility operates three essentially identical boilers that were designed to generate slightly superheated steam at 248°C (478°F) and 3,140 kPa (455 psig). The plant was originally sized to supply process steam for export to an adjacent industrial plant. The fraction of steam that was exported decreased in recent years to about 35% of the production with the remainder being condensed. This has caused Montenay Inc. to initiate a power generation project with the goal to improve the plants energy efficiency and generate additional revenues by purchasing and operating a steam turbine generator. A superheater upgrade was required to raise the final steam temperature to a level that was suitable for use in an efficient steam turbine-generator. Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies Inc. (JANSEN) was contracted to perform the process and design engineering for the required boiler modifications. The project work included defining target process conditions, deriving conceptual design options, sizing the new superheater, deciding on material selection, preparing equipment specifications, and supplying the fabrication and installation drawings. The boiler modifications has been implemented in all three units in spring 2003. Power production will start in early summer 2003.
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Vrchota, Stephen. "Restructuring Plant Operations and Contracts to Make a First Generation RDF Plant Competitive in a Cost-Driven Market." In 20th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec20-7029.

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In 1989, United Power Association (now Great River Energy) and Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy) formed a partnership and entered a 20 year contract with five local counties to turn MSW (municipal solid waste) into RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) and combust the RDF in converted grate-fired boilers in Elk River, MN. Great River Energy owned and operated the Energy Recovery Station (ERS) and Xcel Energy operated the Resource Processing Plant (RPP) a few miles away. The Resource Processing Plant processed 400,000 tons/year of MSW into RDF for the Energy Recovery Station and other RDF plants owned by Xcel Energy. The project was successful, but required significant subsidies from the counties to maintain competitive tipping fees. At the end of the original 20 year contract, a number of the counties wanted to reduce or end any subsidies and restructure the contracts. In the fall of 2009, lack of contracted MSW created difficult financial conditions that threatened to end the project and divert 400,000 tons/year of MSW to area landfills. In May of 2010, Great River Energy purchased the Resource Processing Plant and reorganized the project to be able to better control operating costs and maintain competitive electric rates for its customers. In 2011, Great River Energy restructured processing contracts with three of the original counties and also directly contracted with the regional MSW haulers while implementing sweeping changes in the processing of MSW. A cleaning system was installed to increase the value of the ferrous material collected during the production of RDF. The installation of a bulky waste shredder and processing changes increased the efficiency of converting MSW to RDF. In addition, the recovery of non-ferrous materials from the MSW and heavy residue was optimized. In one year of operation, the Resource Processing Plant has increased RDF production from 84% to over 95% and decreased landfilling to near zero while increasing the revenue from recovered materials. County subsidies have been significantly reduced and will phase out after 2015, tipping fees have been adjusted to be competitive with local landfills, and electric costs have been stabilized at comparable renewable energy rates.
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Lee, Shang-Hsiu (Mike). "Catalytic Dedioxin System Demonstration at Covanta’s Wallingford Plant." In 20th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec20-7056.

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Although the Energy from Waste (EfW) industry has made dramatic improvements in reducing dioxin emissions over the last two decades, the presence of any dioxins in the stack gases from EfW plants continues to be a negative to the acceptance and growth of the EfW industry in the United States. Covanta Energy owns and operates 40 EfW facilities in the U.S. with average dioxin emissions 10 times below the EPA MACT standard of 30 ng/dscm. This emission standard is expected to be reduced in the coming years as the EPA implements new MACT standards. Covanta has taken the position of being in the forefront of the legislation and has an ongoing commitment to continuously lower the emissions of existing plants below regulatory requirements. This commitment has led Covanta to team with CRI Catalyst Company (CRI) to evaluate the application of CRI’s dedioxin technology (SDDS®) in Covanta’s EfW plants.
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Adams, Bart, Dirk Eeraerts, and Ivan Christiaens. "Design, Construction, Start-Up and Commissioning of a State-of-the-Art Water-Cooled Grate WtE-Plant for O¨rebro, Sweden." In 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec11-1687.

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In 2001, SEGHERS was awarded the contract for the design and construction of the furnace and heat recovery system of a new, 330 tons per day WtE-plant in Orebro¨, Sweden. A wide variety of municipal and industrial wastes (including electronic waste, demolition waste, car fluff, filters, plastic and rubber...) will be treated. The design point corresponds to an average heating value (HHV) of 13.1 MJ/kg (5600 Btu/Lb). The first part of the paper addresses the engineering and construction phase of the project, which took 15 months in total. Key decisions and design options, including the choice and characteristics of a partially water-cooled grate, the use of the cooling water heat (with implications on plant efficiency) and the design features resulting in a low-NOx WtE plant are discussed in detail. The second part of the paper focuses on the construction and commissioning of the plant. Finally, the plant performance is documented. The main results are compared with the guaranteed values and the differences are discussed. The performance of the water-cooled grate is compared to that of other WtE plants.
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de Waart, Hendrikus A. A. M. "Amsterdam Waste Fired Plant©: First Year Operating Experience." In 17th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec17-2381.

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Mid 2007 the Amsterdam Waste and Energy Company (AEB) commenced initial operations of their new Waste Fired Power Plant© (WFPP). The unit processes 530,000 metric tons of unsorted municipal solid waste producing electricity with a net efficiency of 30%. (Picture 1)The major contributor to the efficiency increase from the conventional 22% to 30% is a new and patented technology, whereby steam from the high pressure turbine is reheated by steam, rather than flue gas, before entering the low pressure turbine. The WFPP facility has operated successfully throughout 2008 and to this date. Also, for a period of nearly three years, AEB operated a commercial scale pilot plant, with a maximum capacity of 50 tons per hour, to develop the necessary process steps, to recover ferrous, non-ferrous, as well as precious metals from the bottom ash. In this recycling process, heavy metals and other toxicants are removed from the ash, rendering it suitable as a raw material for use in building materials, leaving less than 5% material to be landfilled. The operating results of both experiences are presented in this paper.
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Pe´rilleux, Mark, and Dirk Eeraerts. "Retrofit of WtE Boiler: Case Study on Bonn Plant." In 10th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec10-1002.

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The implementation of the European-directive requiring a residence time of at least two seconds at a temperature above 850°C (1562°F), the change in waste characteristics, and the pursuit of higher thermal efficiencies has pushed many of the existing WtE plants in Europe to their operational limits. Most existing WtE plants were not designed to operate under these conditions and may require modifications to the combustion system. Within the SEGHERS better technology (SEGHERS) company, the SEGHERS-IBB-Prism was developed to deal with the cause of these problems, which are essentially related to insufficient mixing and burnout of the flue gases in the combustion area. In the Boiler Prism the flue gas flow is divided into two parallel flows prior to entering the first radiant pass of the boiler. This division is achieved by means of a prism shaped construction, which is water-cooled and integrated with the natural circulation system of the boiler. Additional secondary air injection nozzles are fitted in the prism. This technology results in a more uniform flue gas temperature and a complete combustion of the flue gas immediately above the prism. In the Bonn Plant, these improvements in the combustion process resulted in a decrease of the fireside cleaning requirements of more than 50%.
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Boisse, Roger. "Operational Training: The Role of Simulators in Plant Operations." In 16th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec16-1941.

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It’s 4 a.m. and the crane operator is a little overzealous, which is starting to show inside the boiler. The bad news is that by the way he’s feeding the chute, it’s only a matter of time until the control room operator loses control of the combustion process, the temperature drops and they’ll face the consequences. The good news, this is a drill. It’s only a drill. And the situation they’re facing is only a simulation. As part of its core training program for plant operating personnel, Wheelabrator Technologies relies on a special computer simulator, licensed from Von Roll Inova, that’s as close to real life as flight simulators are to flying. Just as there’s no airplane to damage as the pilot trains, there’s no boiler. The simulator runs a sophisticated computer program that is identical to the control rooms of the waste-to-energy facilities Wheelabrator operates. It provides users with real-life operating challenges—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Operating scenarios are simulated to exacting standards to provide plant personnel—the plant managers, control room operators, and crane operators—with the ability to respond appropriately to any situation. The simulator allows users to adjust any aspect of operation, from over- or under-fire air to moisture in the virtual trash being fed into the boilers. The process encourages teamwork and allows users to experience situations that could damage property, injure employees or harm the environment. The benefits of the ability to replicate upset and emergency, situations are clear: employees are ready for anything and the instruction helps prevent what would otherwise be downtime or expensive mistakes. The simulator process only works, however, because it’s part of Wheelabrator’s overall training process. The simulator enhances “textbook” instruction in theory and handson qualification checks that all operators receive on a regular basis. It allows them to apply the knowledge they gain from the instruction in the controlled atmosphere of the simulator. Roger Boisse, Senior Manager, Operations Projects with Wheelabrator Technologies, will explain the core operations training program and demonstrate the combustion simulator developed by Von Roll Inova, showing how it can be effective in providing operators with hands-on, and risk-free, experience.
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Reports on the topic "Waste-to-energy plant"

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Melanie, Haupt, and Hellweg Stefanie. Synthesis of the NRP 70 joint project “Waste management to support the energy turnaround (wastEturn)”. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46446/publication_nrp70_nrp71.2020.2.en.

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A great deal of energy can be sourced both directly and indirectly from waste. For example, municipal waste with an energy content of around 60 petajoules is incinerated in Switzerland every year. The energy recovered directly from this waste covers around 4 % of the Swiss energy demand. However, the greatest potential offered by waste management lies in the recovery of secondary raw materials during the recycling process, thus indirectly avoiding the energy-intensive production of primary raw materials. In order to optimise the contribution to the energy turnaround made by waste management, as a first step, improvements need to be made with respect to the transparent documentation of material and cash flows, in particular. On the basis of this, prioritisation according to the energy efficiency of various recycling and disposal channels is required. Paper and cardboard as well as plastic have been identified as the waste fractions with the greatest potential for improvement. In the case of paper and cardboard, the large quantities involved result in considerable impact. With the exception of PET drinks bottles, plastic waste is often not separately collected and therefore offers substantial improvement potential. Significant optimisation potential has also been identified with regard to the energy efficiency of incineration plants. To allow municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) plants to use the heat they generate more effectively, however, consumers of the recovered steam and heat need to be located close by. A decisive success factor when transitioning towards an energy-efficient waste management system will be the cooperation between the many stakeholders of the federally organised sector. On the one hand, the sector needs to be increasingly organised along the value chains. On the other hand, however, there is also a need to utilise the freedom that comes with federal diversity in order to test different solutions.
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Greening the Department of Energy through waste prevention, recycling, and Federal acquisition. Strategic plan to implement Executive Order 13101. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), November 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/771006.

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