Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with existing waste-to-energy technologies, the book includes the latest developments and technologies. It introduces current waste valorization techniques and examines reasons to modify existing waste-to-energy systems through the integration of new processes. In addition, the book explains the design of novel biorefineries and methods to assess these processes alongside detailed results, including the integration of waste-based CHP plants with waste gasification and the integration of pyrolysis technologies and biogas plants with waste thermochemical processing.
Other sections discuss the issues and challenges of commercializing waste-to-energy technologies, including uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs, the environmental impact of waste-integrated biorefineries, and the role of integrated waste-to-energy management in smart cities and urban energy systems. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and those in industry who are interested in the design and implementation of waste-to-energy systems, waste biomass-based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants and forest-based industries.
1. Waste Biorefineries - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. viii 6. Preface - p. ix 7. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 8. Chapter 1 Overview of municipal waste management and challenges associated with its treatment - p. 3 9. Chapter 2 Waste-to-energy (WtE): Current technologies and their future potential - p. 25 10. Chapter 3 From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 63 11. Chapter 4 From cogeneration to polygeneration: Conversion of existing waste CHP plants to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 79 12. Chapter 5 Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 123 13. Chapter 6 Design and analysis of centralized waste-integrated biorefinery concept - p. 157 14. Chapter 7 Market and feasibility analysis of waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 193 15. Chapter 8 Uncertainty in waste-to-energy process designs and techno-economic analysis - p. 229 16. Chapter 9 Conclusions and way forward - p. 271 17. Index - p. 277
Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with existing waste-to-energy technologies, the book includes the latest developments and technologies. It introduces current waste valorization techniques and examines reasons to modify existing waste-to-energy systems through the integration of new processes. In addition, the book explains the design of novel biorefineries and methods to assess these processes alongside detailed results, including the integration of waste-based CHP plants with waste gasification and the integration of pyrolysis technologies and biogas plants with waste thermochemical processing.
Other sections discuss the issues and challenges of commercializing waste-to-energy technologies, including uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs, the environmental impact of waste-integrated biorefineries, and the role of integrated waste-to-energy management in smart cities and urban energy systems. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and those in industry who are interested in the design and implementation of waste-to-energy systems, waste biomass-based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants and forest-based industries.
1. Waste Biorefineries - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. viii 6. Preface - p. ix 7. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 8. Chapter 1 Overview of municipal waste management and challenges associated with its treatment - p. 3 9. Chapter 2 Waste-to-energy (WtE): Current technologies and their future potential - p. 25 10. Chapter 3 From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 63 11. Chapter 4 From cogeneration to polygeneration: Conversion of existing waste CHP plants to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 79 12. Chapter 5 Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 123 13. Chapter 6 Design and analysis of centralized waste-integrated biorefinery concept - p. 157 14. Chapter 7 Market and feasibility analysis of waste-integrated biorefineries - p. 193 15. Chapter 8 Uncertainty in waste-to-energy process designs and techno-economic analysis - p. 229 16. Chapter 9 Conclusions and way forward - p. 271 17. Index - p. 277
