Urban Waste as Resource for Sustainable Environment

Abstract:

The emerging model of waste disposal, develops an integrated approach based on waste reduction, selection, recycling, energy recovery and residual use of landfill. Here we discuss the fundamentals of a proper planning of waste disposal system, specially the thermal recovery, the integration and the methodological approach, either from the environmental and economic point of view. The growing demand for energy, the resulting environmental problems due to satisfy the demand for energy and the complex-economic system, necessitate the study of new technologies such as energy from municipal solid waste (MSW) obtaining as a result of decrease huge mass of solid waste to sanitary landifill and emissions of landifill gas as (CH⁴ and CO² ). Therefore, we propose to validate a technical, economical and environmental analysis of waste-treatment systems with enphasis on generation of energy. The recovery of heat from a waste-to-energy plant, can make a useful contribution to the city energy needs. Whilst we have been slow to exploit fully this resource in Sicily, economically in urban areas.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 394)
• Pages: 304-308
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.394.304
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Angelo Milone, Daniele Milone, Francesco Claudio Campione, Salvatore Pitruzzella
• Keywords: Energy Saving, Smart Cities, Waste to Energy Plant

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