Detail publikace

Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19

Zhao, X., Klemeš, J.J., You, F.Q.

Originální název

Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Combating the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the demand for and disposal of personal protective equipment in the United States. This work proposes a novel waste personal protective equipment processing system that enables energy recovery through producing renewable fuels and other basic chemicals. Exergy analysis and environmental assessment through a detailed life cycle assessment approach are performed to evaluate the energy and environmental sustainability of the processing system. Given the environmental advantages in reducing 35.42% of total greenhouse gas emissions from the conventional incineration and 43.50% of total fossil fuel use from landfilling processes, the optimal number, sizes, and locations of establishing facilities within the proposed personal protective equipment processing system in New York State are then determined by an optimization based site selection methodology, proposing to build two pre-processing facilities in New York County and Suffolk County and one integrated fast pyrolysis plant in Rockland County. Their optimal annual treatment capacities are 1,708 t/y, 8,000 t/y, and 9,028 t/y. The proposed optimal personal protective equipment processing system reduces 31.5% of total fossil fuel use and 35.04% of total greenhouse gas emissions compared to the personal protective equipment incineration process. It also avoids 41.52% and 47.64% of total natural land occupation from the personal protective equipment landfilling and incineration processes.

Klíčová slova

Fossil fuel reduction; GHG emissions; Life cycle assessment; PPE processing system; Process design; Techno-economic analysis

Autoři

Zhao, X., Klemeš, J.J., You, F.Q.

Vydáno

1. 1. 2022

Nakladatel

Elsevier Ltd.

Místo

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND

ISSN

1364-0321

Periodikum

RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Číslo

153

Stát

Spojené státy americké

Strany od

111786

Strany do

111786

Strany počet

15

URL

https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.vutbr.cz/science/article/pii/S1364032121010558

BibTex

@article{BUT174907,
  author="Jiří {Klemeš}",
  title="Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19",
  journal="RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS",
  year="2022",
  number="153",
  pages="111786--111786",
  doi="10.1016/j.rser.2021.111786",
  issn="1364-0321",
  url="https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.vutbr.cz/science/article/pii/S1364032121010558"
}