Simulation of Green and Clean Electrical Power Generation of a 500 Ton per Day Waste Incineration Plant with High Moisture Content and Low Heating Value

Abstract:

With the increasing amount of waste together with the high development of the country, the high amount of waste needed to be treated properly in order to lower the impact to the environment. Waste to Energy through incineration is considered as the appropriated technology to convert green and clean energy from discard matters, especially for the waste that has the mixing composition and has not segregate its composition in the developing country. Therefore, it is essential to simulate its combustion process to see how much of electrical power that can be generated and purpose the appropriated technic in order to improve its efficiency. This research deals with the process simulation of using incineration technology with high moisture content and low heating value in developing country. The simulation of 500 ton per day incineration technology was conducted by the unit operation in Aspen Plus^® program in order to forecast the capacity of electricity production and the contaminants in flue gas emission. It was found that, even high moisture content and low heating value of waste, incineration can be one of the solutions to dispose waste properly and can recover green and clean energy in the form of electricity ranging from 3.78-6.29 MW_e depending on waste’s quality. This green and clean energy recovery from waste could be used to reduce the using of fossil fuel in order to mitigate the emission of the greenhouse gas to atmosphere.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 799-800)
• Pages: 1244-1248
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.799-800.1244
• Online since: October 2015
• Authors: Somrat Kerdsuwan*, Krongkaew Laohalidanond
• Keywords: Aspen Plus® Simulation, Green Energy Recovery, High Moisture Content, Waste Incineration

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