Browsing by Subject "Municipal Solid Waste"

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    Camargo Waste to Energy Power Plant
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Zamenian, Hamed; Nasser, Eminou; Ray, Matt; Iseley, Tom
    The Camargo Waste to Energy Power plant project is being proposed to dispose of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) produced in Mexico. Currently, most urban Municipal Solid Wastes in Mexico are discarded in landfills. The Camargo Waste to Energy (WTE) power station is an opportunity to continue a green path of human ingenuity and technical advancement. The goal of this plant is to achieve a solution that can efficiently deal with the substantial percentages of solid waste, while also creating energy. The facility will be designed to handle 600 pound per hour of MSW collected from Camargo, Monterrey, and other Mexican municipalities. This facility has additional recycling capability by separating glass, ferrous, and non-ferrous metals from raw MSW feedstock. The pyrolytic thermal conversion (PTC) process uses pyrolysis technology to convert organic-based wastes into valuable products like pyro-gas, pyro-oil, and char. Over 99 percent of waste processed by PTC will convert to energy and other saleable and usable products. This facility provides a nearly zero-landfill carbon neutral solution to the waste management field.
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    Trash to Electricity
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Witte, Drew; Schubert, Peter J.
    In 2009, America generated more than 243 million tons of trash, also known as Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). That generation rate was 275% greater than in 1960 when Americans generated 88.1 million tons of MSW. Today, landfills near urban areas are reaching their capacity and energy prices are soaring. Even after separating out recyclables from MSW, Americans’ trash still contains 11 MJ per kg. This energy value is stored as chemical energy in carbon based biomass and un-recyclable plastics. Many types of technologies exist that transform this trash energy into usable electrical energy. The status-quo for turning waste-to-energy is by combustion. There are 76 waste-to-energy combustion plants in the U.S. Another common way to transform waste to energy is by burning methane produced by landfills. Pyrolysis and gasification are two emerging technologies in the waste-to-energy field. These technologies are attractive because they are more controlled processes; therefore, pyrolysis and gasification is better for the environment and allows for greater rate of metal recycling after the process. Additionally, these emerging technologies show the potential to convert MSW into liquid fuels for transportation.