New Bioenergy Concepts for Solid Waste Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Kai Sipilä; Tuula Mäkinen; Carl Wilén

New Bioenergy Concepts for Solid Waste Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Kai Sipilä
, Tuula Mäkinen
, Carl Wilén

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Abstract

The waste management in Europe has been heavily relying on landfills still in the 1990's. Currently new integrated concepts for recycling and energy recovery of waste are demonstrated. In Finland, the new concepts are mainly based on co-firing of waste-derived fuels with solid fuels in combined heat and power production. The Finnish waste management is based on source separation of waste at its origin. In many municipalities the remaining fraction is processed to solid recovered fuels (SRF). The processing of waste in an advanced SRF plant enables to recover still valuable materials for recycling, like glass, metals, aluminium, and paper. Integrated concepts for material and energy recovery are discussed using the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as an example. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste treatment costs are the lowest when combustible fraction of waste is recovered and used in energy production in SRF gasifiers connected to existing coal-fired CHP boilers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the World Conference held in Rome, Italy
Place of Publication	Rome, Italy
Publisher	ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Pages	1947-1950
ISBN (Print)	88-89407-04-2
Publication status	Published - 2004
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event	2nd World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection - Rome, Italy Duration: 10 May 2004 → 14 May 2004

Conference

Conference	2nd World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	10/05/04 → 14/05/04

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

waste disposal
refuse-derived fuel (RDF)
co-combustion
greenhouse gases (GHG)

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Sipilä, K, Mäkinen, T & Wilén, C 2004, New Bioenergy Concepts for Solid Waste Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. in Proceedings of the World Conference held in Rome, Italy. ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Rome, Italy, pp. 1947-1950, 2nd World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection, Rome, Italy, 10/05/04.

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New Bioenergy Concepts for Solid Waste Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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