Publication detail

Influence of waste-to-energy plant integration on local immission load

PUTNA, O. PAVLAS, M. TUREK, V. FAN, Y.

Original Title

Influence of waste-to-energy plant integration on local immission load

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Landfilling is still the most common way of municipal waste treatment in around half of the EU countries. It has been shown that diverting some of the waste-to-energy recovery makes it possible to reduce emissions of various pollutants, especially when the waste replaces lower-quality fossil fuels in heating plants. A methodology is presented to determine the influence of a waste-to-energy plant with a processing capacity in the range of 10 to 150 kt/y integrated into an existing district heating system on the air pollution load in the surrounding area. The change in emission production is determined using an optimisation tool previously developed in the GAMS environment. The parameters of the existing heating plant, such as the fuels used, the boiler output range, etc., are considered. A Gaussian scatter model is then used to determine the immission loads of individual pollutants in the surrounding area. Using the methodology, it is possible to directly quantify the impact of waste-to-energy plant integration on the health burden of the surrounding population in comparison with the reference state. This strategy is presented via a case study involving real-world data, in which it turned out that the immission load can be significantly reduced (up to 83%) compared to the original state in the calculation scenario.

Keywords

waste-to-energy; optimisation; immission load; integration of heat sources; dispersion model

Authors

PUTNA, O.; PAVLAS, M.; TUREK, V.; FAN, Y.

Released

11. 6. 2022

Publisher

Springer

Location

Berlin

ISBN

1618-9558

Periodical

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Year of study

24

Number

10

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

3047

Pages to

3059

Pages count

13

URL

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10098-022-02344-8

BibTex

@article{BUT179192,
  author="Ondřej {Putna} and Martin {Pavlas} and Vojtěch {Turek} and Yee Van {Fan}",
  title="Influence of waste-to-energy plant integration on local immission load",
  journal="Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy",
  year="2022",
  volume="24",
  number="10",
  pages="3047--3059",
  doi="10.1007/s10098-022-02344-8",
  issn="1618-9558",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10098-022-02344-8"
}