Waste material and/or energy recovery

Material resources, energy, and nutrient recovery from waste: are waste refineries the solution for the future?

Waste refineries focusing on multiple outputs of material resources, energy carriers, and nutrients may potentially provide more sustainable utilization of waste resources than traditional waste technologies. This consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluated the environmental performance of a Danish waste refinery solution against state-of-the-art waste technology alternatives (incinerat...

Material And Energy Recovery In Integrated Waste Management System: An Evaluation Based On Life Cycle Assessment

Material and energy recovery in integrated waste management systems: project overview and main results.

This paper describes the context, the basic assumptions and the main findings of a joint research project aimed at identifying the optimal breakdown between material recovery and energy recovery from municipal solid waste (MSW) in the framework of integrated waste management systems (IWMS). The project was carried out from 2007 to 2009 by five research groups at Politecnico di Milano, the Unive...

Development and Evaluation of an Model for Estimating Material and Energy Recovery from Landfilled Waste

Relandfill activity, which means digging up landfill waste and recovering resources, can remove the material having been landfilled, and will free up the land to be reused as new landfill space. We have extended the WIO model for environmental assessment including re-landfill activity. As a part of this work, we have estimated landfill consumption and CO2 emission based on 4 kinds of scenarios ...

Material and energy recovery in integrated waste management systems. An evaluation based on life cycle assessment.

This paper reports the environmental results, integrated with those arising from mass and energy balances, of a research project on the comparative analysis of strategies for material and energy recovery from waste, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. The project, involving the cooperation of five University research groups, was devoted to the optimisation of m...