Assessment of energy recovery from municipal waste management systems using circular economy quality indicators
Authors:
- Zygmunt Kowalski,
- Joanna Kulczycka,
- Agnieszka Makara,
- Roland Verhé,
- Guy De Clercq
Abstract
A complex method developed to assess quality within a proposed framework and at a certain scope of measurement for circular economy (CE) quality indicators is presented. This was used to compare three different scenarios for municipal waste management systems: 1 – incineration; 2 – recycling and reuse of separated municipal waste and the transformation of the organic fraction into biodiesel and bio-coal; and 3 – an upgraded Scenario 2 including decreased recycling of waste streams and the bioprocessing of paper/cardboard and processing the non-recycled fraction into bio-diesel, bio-coal, and second-generation biofuel. For the evaluation of the CE quality indicator, a set of technical, environmental, economic, and social elements was selected by a panel of experts, who also assigned them a qualitative assessment and weighting on the basis of the factors identified. The calculated Relative Increase in the CE indicator for the scenarios analyzed showed that Scenarios 3 and 2 are much more beneficial than Scenario 1 in technical, environmental, economic and social terms.
- Record ID
- CUTf06ecc46775145b69d5b7830184e937c
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Energies, ISSN , e-ISSN 1996-1073, Biweekly
- Issue year
- 2022
- Vol
- 15
- No
- 22
- Pages
- [1-22]
- Article number
- 8625
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; schem.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 20-22; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 52; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 15, Iss. 22
- Substantive notes
- Special Issue: Application of Management Tools in the Energy Sector in 2022
- Keywords in English
- municipal solid waste, incineration, hydrothermal processing, bio fermentation, biofuel, circular economy indicator, qualitative assessment
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/en15228625 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/22/8625 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 140
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- Publication indicators
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTf06ecc46775145b69d5b7830184e937c/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTf06ecc46775145b69d5b7830184e937c
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