The design of industrial and municipal incinerators is based on combustion and heat considerationsl The procedures are given for calculating the quantities of air, flue gas, water and heat, as well as the gas temper­ atures. To assist the reader, a municipal incinerator is used as an example. The relation between refuse analysis and flue gas analysis is explained. Sections on dry and wet dust c...

Most cross-sectional data sets collect income in a discrete number of categories (that is, in grouped form) to simplify the respondent’s task and to encourage a response. In spite of such grouped data collection, many respondents refuse to provide information on income. This paper develops a method to impute a continuous and reliable value for income from grouped and missing income data. JEL cl...

In the present paper, the idea of braking energy regeneration and reusing that energy during acceleration for a refuse truck is comprehended. According to their driving cycle, the refuse trucks have a good potential for braking energy regeneration. On the other hand, hydraulic hybrid is a powertrain with high power density which is appropriate for energy regeneration. In the primary stage of th...

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Because of differences in institutional arrangements, public service markets, and national traditions regarding government intervention, local public service provision can vary greatly. In this paper we compare the procedures adopted by the local governments of The Netherlands and Spain in arranging for the provision of solid waste collection. We find that Spain faces a problem of consolidation...

In this paper, a comparative analysis of the metaheuristic maintenance optimization of refuse collection vehicles (RCV) using the Taguchi experimental design is presented based on a RCV model as a multi-state degradation system with two dependent subsystems. The model which is based on a probabilistic approach includes two stochastic degradation processes, a random failure process and a set of ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of economies of scale and other economic parameters influencing the rate of return of the domestic solid waste collection process. To this end, the case of the Attica region in Greece, which includes equal amounts of urban and rural areas, is considered. The investigating approach is performed via the transcendental logarithmic cost func...

This study considers the problem of determining the locations of collection points as well as the allocations of refuses at demand points to collection points while satisfying the capacity and the maximum allowable collection distance constraints at each collection point. To consider fluctuating demands commonly occurred in refuse collection systems, we consider a restricted dynamic version of ...