NoWaste: Waste Heat Re-use for Greener Truck

Truck Scheduling for Waste Collection in Porto Alegre

This paper considers a truck scheduling problem in the context of solid waste collection in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The problem consists of designing ``good" daily truck schedules over a set of previously defined collection trips, on which the trucks collect the solid waste in fixed routes and empty the loads in one of the several operational recycling facilities in the system. The main objective...

Waste Heat Recycling for Fuel Reforming

Waste Management's LNG Truck Fleet: Start-Up Experience

Re-use of remediated soils for the bioremediation of waste oil sludge.

We investigated the possibility of re-using remediated soils for new bioremediation projects by spiking these soils with waste oil sludge in laboratory based microcosms. The level of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) reduction was high (>80%) in naturally attenuated microcosms and was not significantly improved by biostimulation, bioaugmentation and the combined treatment of bioaugmentation and...

Waste Heat to Power Systems

Waste heat to power (WHP) is the process of capturing heat discarded by an existing industrial process and using that heat to generate power (see Figure 1). Energyintensive industrial processes—such as those occurring at refineries, steel mills, glass furnaces, and cement kilns—all release hot exhaust gases and waste streams that can be harnessed with wellestablished technologies to generate el...