Authors: Wasel-Ur Rahman,
Madhumita Patel,
Vinoj Kurian,
Amit Kumar,
Andreas Hornung
Identifier: CSBE19173
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Description: Currently, the management and disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the major global challenges. In small communities, landfill remains as the most common method of disposing MSW. However, they are not always equipped with integrated waste management facilities to sort and convert disposed wastes into useful energy. A novel technology, known as Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR), could be a promising solution to this issue. TCR integrates intermediate pyrolysis with a post-reforming stage to convert MSW into high quality bio-oil, biochar, and syngas. Due to the simplicity of the process, it can be introduced in a small-community to produce heat and power, by combusting by-products such as biochar and syngas from TCR to reduce dependency on conventional sources of energy. This study focuses on developing process and techno-economic models to account the cost avoided from landfilling, by deploying a 500 kg/hr TCR plant (TCR-500) in Roseridge Regional Landfill, located in Alberta, Canada. Furthermore, various scenarios are developed, by combining different proportions of locally available MSW and agricultural residues to generate useful energy for specific communities to be self-energy-sustainable. The outcomes of this work will be presented in form of mass and energy balance of TCR, and estimate the cost of production of heat and power in $/GJ.
Keywords: Bioenergy, intemediate pyrolysis, techno-economic assessment
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Date: 2019-07-15
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Conference name: CSBE/SCGAB 2019 Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 14-17 July 2019.
Session name: Policy and economics
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Coverage: Canada
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