Environmental Evaluation for Three Typical MSW Incineration Based on Life Cycle Assessment

Abstract:

Garbage incineration is an effective minimization and resource processing methods, but there are no comparative analysises about the environmental impact of incineration processes. To investigate the environmental impacts of three typical MSW incineration processes, we modeled scenarios, calculated energy consumed and six aspects which classified as GWP, ODP, AP, EP, POCP and DUST. The classification results showed the value of the environment impact potential respectively. The impact potential of heat recover-dry absorption processes according to normalized results in descending order is GWP>EP>DUST>AP>POCP>ODP, in contrast the rank of heat recover-wet absorption and semidry processes is GWP>EP>AP>DUST>POCP>ODP, global warming impacts is the most significant penitential factor. The rank of impact potential according to weight factor in descending order is GWP>EP>DUST>AP>ODP>POCP. Dust potential became more significant. The weight factor of Dust is almost twice as much as that of AP. This is because there is a large gap between baseline level and the target level, the solid-waste are the focus of control in these years. In environmental terms, the environmental depletion index of heat recover-dry absorption process is lowest with minimal environmental impact and the heat recover-wet absorption process is the highest with largest environmental impact. The incineration with dry absorption program is the best environment-friendly process in term of environmental impact. Utilization of waste water and reducing total amount of water entering the system can effectively reduce the environmental implication for both HW and HS processes.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 850-851)
• Pages: 1360-1363
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.850-851.1360
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Jing Yi Ma, Xing Yu Chen, Wei Su*
• Keywords: Environmental Implications, Flue Gas Treatment, Incineration, Life Cycle Assessment, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

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