TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental performance of municipal solid waste processing pathways
AU - Rizwan, Muhammad
AU - Saif, Yousef
AU - Almansoori, Ali
AU - ElKamel, Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAE2018 The 10th International Conference on Applied Energy.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study addresses the sustainable design of processing pathways for the utilization and conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) into energy and value-added products. Based on the MSW superstructure we developed previously (capable of producing recycled materials, compost, bioethanol, electricity), we assess the environmental performance of potential MSW processing pathways. A mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is formulated with the environmental objective function in a generic way, to select the environmentally sustainable route for the processing of MSW to energy and valuable products that minimizes the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). A case study of Abu Dhabi Emirate is considered, and the obtained results are discussed. The results show that the most environmentally sustainable route is comprised of (1) recycling of the recyclable components of MSW via material recycling facility, and (2) production of bioethanol via gasification of the rest of the waste followed by catalytic transformation.
AB - This study addresses the sustainable design of processing pathways for the utilization and conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) into energy and value-added products. Based on the MSW superstructure we developed previously (capable of producing recycled materials, compost, bioethanol, electricity), we assess the environmental performance of potential MSW processing pathways. A mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is formulated with the environmental objective function in a generic way, to select the environmentally sustainable route for the processing of MSW to energy and valuable products that minimizes the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). A case study of Abu Dhabi Emirate is considered, and the obtained results are discussed. The results show that the most environmentally sustainable route is comprised of (1) recycling of the recyclable components of MSW via material recycling facility, and (2) production of bioethanol via gasification of the rest of the waste followed by catalytic transformation.
KW - Environmental analysis
KW - Municipal solid waste
KW - Superstructure-based optimization
KW - Waste-to-energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063860976&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.957
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.957
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85063860976
SN - 1876-6102
VL - 158
SP - 3363
EP - 3368
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
T2 - 10th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2018
Y2 - 22 August 2018 through 25 August 2018
ER -
