Efficient Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste

Abstract

As a method to recover energy efficiently from urban waste, symbiotic method with industries are mainly discussed in this report. The hybrid industry on their raw material and fuel, which utilizes waste as much as possible as substitute for fossil resources would contribute both the maximization of energy recovery from waste and the promotion of low-carbon transition in industries. To utilize urban waste in industries, two filter systems will be required to keep the quality of the production process in the industry. One function consists of the separation of waste by manual work and/or separation machines to remove foreign matters and the other function consists of pure steam supply from an incinerator of waste to neighboring factories. For the sophistication of energy recovery from urban waste, not only the system improvement in infrastructures for both supply side and demand side of waste but also the social system improvement to give reasonable incentive for the stakeholders would be important. Through the development of those systems, it is possible to get the maximum low-carbon effect from the limited amount of valuable waste.