Assessment of the Climate Change Impact of Municipal Solid Waste Management Scenarios in Athens Greater Area
Disposal of municipal solid waste in sanitary landfills is still the main waste management method in the Attica region, as in most regions of Greece. Nevertheless, diversion from landfilling is being promoted by regional plans, in which the perspectives of new waste treatment technologies are being evaluated. The present study aimed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impact of different municipal solid waste treatment technologies currently under assessment in the new regional plan for Attica. The integrated assessment would assess additional environmental impacts of the above technologies and at the same time evaluate their perspectives in the Hellenic market, supporting like this the decisions makers. These technologies are mechanical-biological treatment, mass-burn incineration and mechanical treatment and have been assessed in the context of different waste management scenarios. The present study utilized existing methodologies and emission factors for the quantification of GHG emissions from the waste management process and found that all technologies under assessment could provide GHG emission savings provided that there is an end market for the recovered fuels. However, the performance and ranking of these technologies is strongly dependent on the existence of end markets for the waste-derived fuels produced by the mechanical-biological treatment processes. In the absence of these markets the disposal of these fuels would be necessary and thus significant GHG savings would be lost.
Municipal Waste Incineration MBT Mechanical Treatment Attica
A. KARAGIANNIDIS E. KALOGIROU C. KARKANIAS
Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ari SYNERGIA, Greece
国际会议
北京
英文
1335-1341
2010-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）