1. Energy Potential and Properties of Food Court Waste - FCW as Fuel Towards Circular Economy
- Author
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Cosmin Marculescu, Dorin Boldor, Cora Bulmău, Gabriela Ionescu, and Raluca-Nicoleta Tirtea
- Subjects
Waste management ,business.industry ,Circular economy ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,cardboard ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Raw material ,01 natural sciences ,Renewable energy ,Food waste ,visual_art ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,Environmental science ,Production (economics) ,Heat of combustion ,021108 energy ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
This paper addresses the topic of food waste management in a circular economy and presents data concerning the significant amount of waste annually generated and the importance of its valorization. The main waste considered here is Food Court Waste generated in the food court areas of malls, shopping centers, airports etc. Its composition, proximate and ultimate analysis, and its heating value are calculated/determined and presented in order to emphasize its properties as a feedstock in thermochemical conversion processes. Due to its composition - paper, cardboard, plastic, organic residues and wood - this waste represents an alternative possible source of green energy, since all its components are already proven as suitable for energy production through thermochemical conversion.
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- 2019